P. Coun. From my sister? how is she? Has the new furniture been carried home?
Sell. Beautiful, splendid! thanks to your care! Old papa will open all his eyes when he comes home. All the old furniture has been carried off, and the room looks very elegant with all the new things you have sent.
P. Coun. And Frederica?--
Sell. She was so uneasy, she did not know what to do with herself. She fixed her eyes on every article as it was carried off, as if she took leave of an old friend. But the large easy chair still remains; she grasped it with both hands, and would not suffer it to be removed.
P. Coun. These people must be metamorphosed; we must see how they reconcile themselves to it.
Sell. But, what a man you are! What a noble heart, to be thus attached to your family!
P. Coun. Very natural. I am indebted to my father for so many things;--and Frederica is a good-natured creature.
Sell. More than that. I know none of her sex that strives so anxiously to cultivate her understanding, and to exalt her faculties to an extraordinary height.
P. Coun. (gives him his hand.) I am glad you find her so.
Sell. With your permission, Frederica will now assume a different dress, better suited to the furniture you have sent.