Портрет Дориана Грея / The Picture of Dorian Gray. Оскар Уайльд

mother, a faded tired woman who played Lady Capulet in a sort of magenta dressing-wrapper on the first night, and looks as if she had seen better days.”

      “I know that look. It depresses me,” murmured Lord Henry, examining his rings.

      “The Jew wanted to tell me her history, but I said it did not interest me.”

      “You were quite right. There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.”

      “Sibyl is the only thing I care about. What is it to me where she came from? From her little head to her little feet, she is absolutely and entirely divine. Every night of my life I go to see her act, and every night she is more marvellous.”

      “That is the reason, I suppose, that you never dine with me now. I thought you must have some curious romance on hand. You have; but it is not quite what I expected.”

      “My dear Harry, we either lunch or sup together every day, and I have been to the opera with you several times,” said Dorian, opening his blue eyes in wonder.

      “You always come dreadfully late.”