Your friend. [To Charlotte.] Come home, dear.
Lukyn.
Do, do hear me! To avoid the embarrassment of your encountering a stranger, he retreated to the balcony.
Agatha Posket.
To the balcony? You have shamefully compromised two trusting women, Colonel Lukyn.
Lukyn.
I would have laid down my life rather than have done so. I did lay down my friend’s life.
Agatha Posket.
He has overheard every confidential word I have spoken to you.
Lukyn.