Rip. Yes, and you are mein taughter, my darling dat I always was love so! Oh, bless your heart, how you have grown since last night as you was a little girl.
Alice. [Embracing him.] Oh, my poor dear brother.
Rip. Yes, I tink I am your broder 'cos you is my sister.
Knickerbocker returns.
Alice. And here is my husband.
Rip. He is a much deal uglier, dan he used to vas before.
Knickerbocker. [Embracing him.] My blessed brother-in-law.
Vedder. Ah! and now you have come back, I suppose you want your wife!
Rip. No, I'll be tam if I do! You've got her, and you keep her—I von't never have her no more.
Vedder. I sha'n't have her—I have done with her, and glad to be rid of her. [Exit.