MISS PRISM Cecily! It's time for your Latin lesson! CECILY(Coming very slowly) But I don't like Latin. It doesn't sound nice. And I'm sure that I don't look nice after my Latin lesson. Miss PRISM Child, you know that Mr Worthing wants you to work hard at your lessons. CECILY Dear Uncle Jack is so very serious! Miss PRISM Mr Worthing has many troubles in his life. He has no time for pleasure. He is always worried about that terrible young brother of his. CECILY I'd like to meet that terrible young brother of his. Cecily begins to write in her diary. Miss PRISM You must put your diary away, Cecily. I'm writing the wonderful secrets of my life. If I don't, I'll forget them. Don't you write things, Miss Prism? MISS PRISM I once wrote novel, in younger days. a my CECILY Really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! Where is your novel now?