DRISCOLL (angrily)
What do you?
LYDIA
I love him! They mean to burn me!
ROBERT (struggling to reach her, though the Deaf-and-Dumb Man holds him fast)
They shall not! I say they shall not!
DRISCOLL (fiercely, at the same time)
You shan’t love him! (He struggles with the Gunner and shouts) You shan’t! You shan’t!
LYDIA (writhing in her chair and screaming)
Save me! Save me!
BIMBO (roaring and stamping his foot)
Silence!
(The three pirates clap their right hands over the mouths of the three vociferating captives, and the latter, after trying to make themselves heard in spite of this encumbrance, relapse into a despairing acceptance of the situation.)
BIMBO (exasperated)
What’s all the pother? What’s the matter with you, mistress? Who talks of burning you?
LYDIA (behind the hand of her captor, indistinctly)
You did!
BIMBO
I said: Who talks of burning you? Let her speak.
(The Man with the Braided Beard removes his hand from her mouth.)
LYDIA
You did!