The Importance of Being Earnest
Which dialogue from the passage provides the best evidence for the conflict from the previous question?
A. Jack....It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case.Algernon. Oh! It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.
B. Jack Bunduryist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist?
Algernon.I'll reveal to you the meaning of that incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you are Ernest in town and Jack in the country.
C. Algernon....However,it makes no matter,for,now that I look at the instruction inside,I found that the thing isn't yours after all. Jack. Of course it's mine. [Moving to him.] You have seen me with it a hundred times,...***
D. Jack. I haven't asked you to dine with me anywhere to-night.
Algernon. I know. You are absurdly careless about sending out invitations. It is very foolish of you. Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.