Knickerbocker.
Didn't think fit to break the news too suddenly, but you have it.
Alice.
“The ship with wide-expanded canvas glides along and soon”—I forget the remainder of the quotation; but 'tis in the delectable work, “Robinson Crusoe”—soon will you hear him hail. [A knock is heard.] My stars foretell that this is either him—
Knickerbocker.
Or somebody else, as I suppose.
Enter Sophia.
Sophia.
Oh, sir; Squire Knickerbocker, Herman, son of the late Derric Van Slaus, is in the hall.
Alice.