[HPforGrownups] Re: Rookwood

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 77735

Charlie Moody wrote:
> On Sunday, August 17, 2003, at 04:24  AM,
>>>
>>eloise_herisson wrote:
>>
>>>A very respectable, if old-fashioned one.
>>>
>>>Jack Worthing's best friend in _The Importance of being
>>>Ernest_ is Algernon Moncrief.
>>
>>Then T.M. Sommers wrote:
>>Don't be silly; Algy's name was Ernest.
> 
> Now me (Charlie):
> Beg to differ, m'lud:  JACK's name was Earnest (it was he who
> was found in the hand-bag);  Algy's name was Algernon (or "Bunbury",
> if you prefer).

The Ernest I referred to was Jack's imaginary brother, whom Jack 
impersonated while in London.  When Algy went to Jack's country house, 
*he* impersonated the imaginary Ernest.  Nobody ever impersonated the 
equally imaginary Bunbury.