Cecily angrily puts four spoonfuls of sugar in a cup. CECILY(in a hard voice) Cake, or bread and butter? GWENDOLEN(Coldly) Bread and butter, please. You never see cake in the best houses, these days. Cecily gives her a large piece of cake. Merriman leaves. GENDOLEN(Standing up) My tea full of sugar, and cake when I asked for bread and butter! I don't easily get angry, Miss Cardew, but this is just too much. CECILY Nothing is too much, to keep my poor sweet Ernest away from a girl like you. GENDOLEN I never liked you from the start. Jack comes into the garden. GWENDOLEN(Seeing him) Ernest! My dear Ernest! JACK(Going to kiss her Gwendolen! My dearest!