Counsellor [laughing]. Fantastical nonsense! Things have different sides: that which in common life, you call honesty, is bungler's work in politics.

Lewis [looking sharply at him]. So!

Counsellor. Apropos—the accounts of Drave's guardianship are brought; there we shall discover his impositions.

Lewis. I don't mind him; but Augusta, and her mother——No, that shall not be.

Enter the Chancellor's Clerk.

Clerk. Gentlemen, there is a person waiting for My Lord; guess who?

Lewis. I don't care.

Clerk. One I should never have expected to see here.

Counsellor. Who is it?

Clerk [to Lewis]. Your brother.