Read the beginning of The Importance of Being Earnest. Title: The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde

The Persons in the Play
John Worthing, J. P.
Algernon Moncrieff
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D. D.
Merriman, Butler
Lane, Manservant
Lady Bracknell
Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax
Cecily Cardew
Miss Prism, Governess

First Act
SCENE
Morning-room in Algernon’s flat in Half-Moon Street. The room is luxuriously and artistically furnished. The sound of a piano is heard in the adjoining room.

[Lane is arranging afternoon tea on the table, and after the music has ceased, Algernon enters.]

Algernon. Did you hear what I was playing, Lane?

Lane. I didn’t think it polite to listen, sir.

Which analysis of the beginning of The Importance of Being Earnest is the most accurate?

1. asking questions, predicting, thinking of the character's actions

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