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1"I suppose you have heard the news, Basil?" said Lord Henry that evening as Hallward was shown into a little private
2room at the Bristol where dinner had been laid for three. "No, Harry," answered the artist, giving his hat and coat to
3the bowing waiter. "What is it? Nothing about politics, I hope! They don't interest me. There is hardly a single person
4in the House of Commons worth painting, though many of them would be the better for a little whitewashing." "Dorian Gray
5is engaged to be married," said Lord Henry, watching him as he spoke. Hallward started and then frowned. "Dorian engaged
6to be married!" he cried. "Impossible!" "It is perfectly true." "To whom?" "To some little actress or other." "I can't
7believe it. Dorian is far too sensible." "Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then, my dear Basil."
8"Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry." "Except in America," rejoined Lord Henry languidly.
9"But I didn't say he was married. I said he was engaged to be married. There is a great difference. I have a distinct
10remembrance of being married, but I have no recollection at all of being engaged. I am inclined to think that I never
11was engaged." "But think of Dorian's birth, and position, and wealth. It would be absurd for him to marry so much
12beneath him." "If you want to make him marry this girl, tell him that, Basil. He is sure to do it, then. Whenever a man
13does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." "I hope the girl is good, Harry. I don't want to
14see Dorian tied to some vile creature, who might degrade his nature and ruin his intellect." "Oh, she is better than
15good--she is beautiful," murmured Lord Henry, sipping a glass of vermouth and orange-bitters. "Dorian says she is
16beautiful, and he is not often wrong about things of that kind. Your portrait of him has quickened his appreciation of
17the personal appearance of other people. It has had that excellent effect, amongst others. We are to see her to-night,
18if that boy doesn't forget his appointment." "Are you serious?" "Quite serious, Basil. I should be miserable if I
19thought I should ever be more serious than I am at the present moment." "But do you approve of it, Harry?" asked the
20painter, walking up and down the room and biting his lip. "You can't approve of it, possibly. It is some silly
21infatuation." "I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are
22not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never
23interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality
24selects is absolutely delightful to me. Dorian Gray falls in love with a beautiful girl who acts Juliet, and proposes to
25marry her. Why not? If he wedded Messalina, he would be none the less interesting. You know I am not a champion of
26marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack
27individuality. Still, there are certain temperaments that marriage makes more complex. They retain their egotism, and
28add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organized, and to be
29highly organized is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence. Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever
30one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience. I hope that Dorian Gray will make this girl his wife,
31passionately adore her for six months, and then suddenly become fascinated by some one else. He would be a wonderful
32study." "You don't mean a single word of all that, Harry; you know you don't. If Dorian Gray's life were spoiled, no one
33would be sorrier than yourself. You are much better than you pretend to be." Lord Henry laughed. "The reason we all like
34to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that
35we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to
36us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he
37may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled
38life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it. As
39for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women. I
40will certainly encourage them. They have the charm of being fashionable. But here is Dorian himself. He will tell you
41more than I can." "My dear Harry, my dear Basil, you must both congratulate me!" said the lad, throwing off his evening
42cape with its satin-lined wings and shaking each of his friends by the hand in turn. "I have never been so happy. Of
43course, it is sudden--all really delightful things are. And yet it seems to me to be the one thing I have been looking
44for all my life." He was flushed with excitement and pleasure, and looked extraordinarily handsome. "I hope you will
45always be very happy, Dorian," said Hallward, "but I don't quite forgive you for not having let me know of your
46engagement. You let Harry know." "And I don't forgive you for being late for dinner," broke in Lord Henry, putting his
47hand on the lad's shoulder and smiling as he spoke. "Come, let us sit down and try what the new chef here is like, and
48then you will tell us how it all came about." "There is really not much to tell," cried Dorian as they took their seats
49at the small round table. "What happened was simply this. After I left you yesterday evening, Harry, I dressed, had some
50dinner at that little Italian restaurant in Rupert Street you introduced me to, and went down at eight o'clock to the
51theatre. Sibyl was playing Rosalind. Of course, the scenery was dreadful and the Orlando absurd. But Sibyl! You should
52have seen her! When she came on in her boy's clothes, she was perfectly wonderful. She wore a moss-coloured velvet
53jerkin with cinnamon sleeves, slim, brown, cross-gartered hose, a dainty little green cap with a hawk's feather caught
54in a jewel, and a hooded cloak lined with dull red. She had never seemed to me more exquisite. She had all the delicate
55grace of that Tanagra figurine that you have in your studio, Basil. Her hair clustered round her face like dark leaves
56round a pale rose. As for her acting--well, you shall see her to-night. She is simply a born artist. I sat in the dingy
57box absolutely enthralled. I forgot that I was in London and in the nineteenth century. I was away with my love in a
58forest that no man had ever seen. After the performance was over, I went behind and spoke to her. As we were sitting
59together, suddenly there came into her eyes a look that I had never seen there before. My lips moved towards hers. We
60kissed each other. I can't describe to you what I felt at that moment. It seemed to me that all my life had been
61narrowed to one perfect point of rose-coloured joy. She trembled all over and shook like a white narcissus. Then she
62flung herself on her knees and kissed my hands. I feel that I should not tell you all this, but I can't help it. Of
63course, our engagement is a dead secret. She has not even told her own mother. I don't know what my guardians will say.
64Lord Radley is sure to be furious. I don't care. I shall be of age in less than a year, and then I can do what I like. I
65have been right, Basil, haven't I, to take my love out of poetry and to find my wife in Shakespeare's plays? Lips that
66Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed
67Juliet on the mouth." "Yes, Dorian, I suppose you were right," said Hallward slowly. "Have you seen her to-day?" asked
68Lord Henry. Dorian Gray shook his head. "I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona."
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