Lord Windermere You scoundrel! I’ll not leave your room till I have searched every corner of it! What moves behind that curtain?

Rushes towards the curtain C.

Mrs Erlynne (enters behind R.)° Lord Windermere!

Lord Windermere Mrs Erlynne!

Everyone starts and turns round. Lady Windermere slips out from behind the curtain and glides from the room L.

Mrs Erlynne I am afraid I took your wife’s fan in mistake for my own, when I was leaving your house tonight. I am so sorry.

Takes fan from him. Lord Windermere looks at her in contempt. Lord Darlington in mingled astonishment and anger. Lord Augustus turns away. The other men smile at each other

Act Drop