Counsellor [detaining him]. Bravo, bravo, Mr. Ecclesiasticus!
Philip. Are you acquainted with his book?
Counsellor. Certainly.
Philip. And read it?
Counsellor. Oh, often, very often [laughing]; and I fancy I hear him now.
Philip. Yet, you have forgotten one of his best sayings.
Counsellor. Which?
Philip. A wife man smiles—a fool, a fool, Mr. Counsellor, laughs aloud. [Exit.
Counsellor. It is a pity he is gone; the best part of the jest was to come.
Mrs. D. But the laugh was not entirely on your side.