(Pause, during which Gwendolen, having taken a rapid observation of Grandcourt, made a brief graphic description of him to an indefinite hearer.)
"I have left off shooting."
"Oh, then, you are a formidable person. People who have done things once and left them off make one feel very contemptible, as if one were using cast-off fashions. I hope you have not left off all follies, because I practice a great many."
(Pause, during which Gwendolen made several interpretations of her own speech.)
"What do you call follies?"
"Well, in general, I think, whatever is agreeable is called a folly. But you have not left off hunting, I hear."
(Pause, wherein Gwendolen recalled what she had heard about Grandcourt's position, and decided that he was the most aristocratic-looking man she had ever seen.)

(Pause, during which Gwendolen made a brief graphic description of Grandcourt to an unknown hearer.)
"I have left off shooting."
"Oh, then you are a formidable person. People who have done things once and left them off make one feel very contemptible. I hope you have not left off all follies, because I practice a great many."
(Pause, during which Gwendolen made several interpretations of her own speech.)
"What do you call follies?"
"Well, in general, I think whatever is agreeable is called a folly. But you have not left off hunting, I hear."
(Pause, wherein Gwendolen recalled Grandcourt's position, and decided that he was the most aristocratic-looking man she had ever seen.)
