"If from other appointments I keep you: unknown
To my sight till this hour you perhaps may have been,
Still your character now I have readily seen;
And would say a few words ere we part for the night,
On a subject perhaps you can give us some light.
Be so kind as to give that young lady a seat."
But before he could move Joan had rose to her feet,
And exclaimed, "Oh, base man! you might well flee with shame!
'Twas to warn these good people I hitherward came.
Oh, how could you thus serve me, who lov'd you so dearly!