CUTLET (To Davenport.) Sir, the young lady at my house is desirous you should return immediately. She has heard something from home.
PENDULOUS
What do I hear?
DAVENPORT 'Tis her fears, I daresay. My dear Pendulous, you will excuse me?—I must not tell him our situation at present, though it cost him a fit of jealousy. We shall have fifty opportunities for explanation. [Exit.]
PENDULOUS
Does that gentleman visit the lady at your lodgings?
CUTLET He is quite familiar there, I assure you. He is all in all with her, as they say.
PENDULOUS It is but too plain. Fool that I have been, not to suspect that, while she pretended scruples, some rival was at the root of her infidelity!
CUTLET
You seem distressed, Sir. Bless me!
PENDULOUS
I am, friend, above the reach of comfort.
CUTLET
Consolation, then, can be to no purpose?
PENDULOUS
None.