“I am afeared, fully.”
“And Don Juan?”
“If I mistake not, is likewise taken with Blanche: but I doubt somewhat if he be therein as wholehearted as she.”
“And what say the elders?” asked Mrs Tremayne.
“Look on with eyes which see nought. But, nathless, there be one pair of eyes that see; and Blanche’s path is not like to run o’er smooth.”
“What, Mistress Rachel?”
“Nay, she is blind as the rest. I mean Lucrece.”
“Lucrece! Thinkest she will ope the eyes of the other?”
“I think she casteth about to turn Don Juan’s her way.”
“Alack, poor Blanche!” said Mrs Tremayne. “Howso the matter shall go, mefeareth she shall not ’scape suffering.”