Read the excerpt from Act III of The Importance of Being Earnest.Lady Bracknell. There are distinct social possibilities in Miss Cardew’s profile.Algernon. Cecily is the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl in the whole world. And I don’t care twopence about social possibilities.

Lady Bracknell is judging Cecily in terms of her social prospects, but Algernon says he does not care about those prospects and instead praises Cecily as “the sweetest, dearest, prettiest girl.” His response shows that his feelings for her matter more to him than her social status. Choice A best expresses this contrast.

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