PENDULOUS Maria! She is gone—in tears. Yet it seems she has had her scruples. She said she had tried to smother them. Mermaid Betty intimated as much.
Re-enter Betty.
BETTY
Never mind Retty, sir; depend upon it she will never 'peach.
PENDULOUS
'Peach!
BETTY Lord, sir, these scruples will blow over. Go to her again, when she is in a better humour. You know we must stand off a little at first, to save appearances.
PENDULOUS
Appearances! we!
BETTY
It will be decent to let some time elapse.
PENDULOUS
Time elapse!
Lost, wretched Pendulous! to scorn betrayed,
The scoff alike of mistress and of maid!
What now remains for thee, forsaken man,
But to complete thy fate's abortive plan,
And finish what the feeble law began?
[Exeunt.]