In this act, Algernon and Jack are at Jack's country house. Algernon pretends to be Jack's brother Ernest Worthing, and falls in love with Cecily and asks her to marry him.
Algernon: Oh, I don't care about Jack. I don't care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, wont you? (Act II).
This question posed by Algernon makes him hypocritical, and it also makes him seem a bit crazy. Earlier on in the novel, Jack calls Algernon unromantic. Algernon also says that a proposal is business, and not pleasure. Here, he goes against himself and proposes to Cecily after knowing her for a very short period of time. It seems as if a premise for marriage is not serious here, for a proposal came so quickly that it is impossible that Algernon really does love Cecily.
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