"there is no use your telling me that you are going to be good," cried lord
henry, dipping his white fingers into a red copper bowl filled with rose-water.
"you are quite perfect. pray, don't change."
dorian gray shook his head. "no, harry, i have done too many dreadful things
in my life. i am not going to do any more. i began my good actions yesterday."
"where were you yesterday? "
"in the country, harry. i was staying at a little inn by myself."
"my dear boy," said lord henry, smiling, "anybody can be good in the country.
there are no temptations there. that is the reason why people who live out of
town are so absolutely uncivilized. civilization is not by any means an easy
thing to attain to. there are only two ways by which man can reach it. one is
by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. country people have no
opportunity of being either, so they stagnate."

what does lord henry think of goodness?
a) he does not take it seriously.
b) he thinks of it analytically.
c) he has strong views about it.
d) he is contemptuous of it.