WIFE.
I always obey my pastor. [taking it].
AGATHA.
Good bye. [shaking hands with the Cottagers.] For your hospitality to me, may ye enjoy continued happiness.
COTTAGER.
Fare you well—fare you well.
WIFE.
If you find friends and get health, we won’t trouble you to call on us again: but if you should fall sick or be in poverty, we shall take it very unkind if we don’t see you.
[Exeunt Agatha and Anhalt on one side, Cottager and his Wife on the other].
SCENE II.
A Room in the Castle.
BARON sitting upon a sopha.—FREDERICK standing near him, with one hand pressed between his—the Baron rises.
BARON.
Been in battle too!—I am glad to hear it. You have known hard services, but now they are over, and joy and happiness will succeed.—The reproach of your birth shall be removed, for I will acknowledge you my son, and heir to my estate.
FREDERICK.
And my mother——