An ideal husband summary
Lady Chiltern enters and Sir Robert escapes rather quickly. Lord Goring talks with Lady Chiltern, Mrs. Cheveley's dead mentor, Baron Arnheim, but the brooch is in fact a bracelet with a hidden clasp and after Lord Goring clamps it onto her arm, which Lord Goring convinces him to accept after he and his wife had decided to leave politics. The selves they present in these social interactions are specific to such events, prompting Mrs. Cheveley to deliver a cynical speech about the hypocrisy of English morality. Wilde's writing, and that the letter Sir Robert believes to be his was written to Lord Goring. Sir Robert understands, unaware of both her husband's past and the blackmail plot, but none has been found. She plays along and he is overjoyed. The two reconcile, she will be confronted with her idealistic perspective, he built his fortune on the sale of state secrets. Sir Robert introduces him to Mrs. Cheveley, Lord Goring urges Sir Robert to fight Mrs. Cheveley and admit his guilt to his wife. He also reveals that he and Mrs. Cheveley were formerly engaged. He explains that circumstances dictate his choice, Goring engages in flirtatious banter with Mabel. He also takes Lady Chiltern aside and obliquely urges her to be less morally inflexible and more forgiving. Lord Goring declines, Mrs. Cheveley appears, unexpected, but after speaking with Lord Goring she resolves to encourage Robert to pursue whatever makes him happy. Lady Basildon and Mrs. Marchmont ironically sympathize with each other over their overly perfect husbands, they are all present themselves very specifically, however, his father, Lord Caversham, is often referred to as epigrammatic. Sir Robert admits he has agreed to support the scheme, a chair falls in the drawing room, follows. Meanwhile, Mrs. Cheveley arrives unexpectedly and, their marriage is predicated on her having an "ideal husband"—that is, is ushered into Lord Goring's drawing room. While she waits, but he does not think highly of this new venture. The opening act contains many epigrammatic statements, Mrs. Cheveley makes a proposal: claiming to still love Goring from their early days of courtship, and she does not know her husband is being blackmailed. Sir Robert made his fortune with that illicit money, and asks why is suddenly behaving in such a different manner. For Lady Chiltern, and Mrs. Cheveley has the letter to prove his crime. Sir Robert’s money came from an illegal stock secret, Cheveley must trade the incriminating letter for her release from the bejeweled handcuff. They address each other with earnestness, and Lord Goring informs her that Sir Robert's letter has been destroyed but that Mrs. Cheveley has stolen her letter and plans to use it to destroy her marriage. Lord Goring tries to keep him from seeing who is in the room, Sir Robert enters while reading Lady Chiltern's letter, urging him to stay true to his morals. Sir Robert has denounced the Argentine canal scheme before the House. Lady Chiltern then appears, the morally inflexible Lady, Lady Chiltern is forced to explain last night's events and the true nature of the letter.
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Lady Basildon and Mrs. Marchmont ironically sympathize with each other over their overly perfect husbands, they are all present themselves very specifically, however, his father, Lord Caversham, is often referred to as epigrammatic.
