Major Tarver and Mr. Darbey!——

The Dean.

If you have sufficiently merged all sense of moral rectitude as to declare that I am not at home, do so.

Sheba.

No, no. Papa; we have accidentally discovered that you, our parent, have stooped to deception, if not to crime.

The Dean.

[Staggering back.] Oh!

Sheba.

We are still young—the sooner, therefore, we are removed from any unfortunate influence the better.

Salome.