AUGUS. Goodness only knows. It’s all a riddle to me.
(BOBBINS completely overcome, drops his head on MRS. BROWN’S shoulder)
Enter VANDYKE BROWN, L. C.
VAN. (C.) Ah, now I have you! (crossing to L.) This is occular proof!
MRS. BROWN. (C., running to VANDYKE) Is this reality? My dear—dear Vandyke come home to me!
VAN. (L., repulsing her) Touch me not—perjured woman!
MRS. BROWN. (amazed) Vandyke!
VAN. Avaunt, I say, abandoned female!
MRS. BROWN. Abandoned!
VAN. To what hast thou fallen! Cleopatra and her aspics, Clytemnestra, and the Queen in Hamlet, are all outdone by thee!