Compare the proposal ( "Jack and Gwen") and this scene ("Algernon and Cecily"). Then analyse the vision of love and marriage given in these two scenes. CECILY Then have we got to part? ALGERNON I am afraid so. It's a very painful parting. CECILY It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable. ALGERNON Thank you. [Enter MERRIMAN.] MERRIMAN The dog-cart is at the door, sir. [ALGERNON looks appealingly at CECILY.] CECILY It can wait, Merriman for . . . five minutes. MERRIMAN Yes, Miss. [Exit MERRIMAN.] ALGERNON I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection. CECILY I think your frankness does you great credit, Ernest. If you will allow m...