Question

too many words to post

Answer 1

GWENDOLEN (Looking round.): Quite a well-kept garden this is, Miss Cardew.

CECILY: So glad you like it, Miss Fairfax.

GWENDOLEN: I had no idea there were any flowers in the country.

CECILY: Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London.

GWENDOLEN: Personally I cannot understand how anybody manages to exist in the country, if anybody who is anybody does. The country always bores me to death.

CECILY: Ah! This is what the newspapers call agricultural depression, is it not? I believe the aristocracy are suffering very much from it just at present. It is almost an epidemic amongst them, I have been told

Answer 2

In these lines, Gwendolen says that people who live in the country lack?
income
manners
social status
education
Cecily indicates that people in the city are?
emotionally depressed
morally debased
economically prosperous
ignorant of country life

Answer 3

Looks like a rather posh, very formal, and perhaps just about cordial ... maybe "contest" is a reasonable euphemism ?
Is it funny ?
Mind you if Miss Fairfax is out of London, and staying with Miss C it makes sense for them both to not over bicker with each other doesn't it ?

First two lines could be very telling ...
Quite a well-kept garden this is, Miss Cardew.
So glad you like it, Miss Fairfax.
(Implication - F is saying to the reader "how would you know Miss C ?" but being neutrally "polite" about it. F might also be rebutting the possibility that C is a patronising city slicker who feigns that she can't believe that there can be tidiness in the countryside. Clearly, C hasn't been to Hampton Court, nor Versailles recently ... )

social status education ignorant of country life depressed/debased

Answer 4

thanks

Answer 5

y v w