Lord. Here's a spectacle for a peer! Floriville is below, and has returned from his travels a finished coxcomb.—I'll not give him a farthing.
Lady. Nay, my lord, perhaps you may be mistaken.
Lord. Mistaken! no,—he has travelled not to see, but to say he had seen.
Enter Marianne, with a French Watch and Chain.
Mari. Oh, uncle-in-law! look here——I never saw any thing so elegant in all my life.
Lord. Whose present is this?
Mari. Whose!—why the sweet gentleman's just arrived from Italy.—Lord! he's a dear man!—He has promised to do every thing for me—to get me a fortune—to get me a husband—to get me a——
Lord. Hush! you don't know what you are talking about.
Mari. Yes, but I do, though—he has told me every thing—Lord! I have heard such things!—Come here, near—[Lord Scratch gets close to her.] get my aunt out of the room, and I'll tell you stories that shall make your old heart bound again! Hush! do it quietly—I will, upon my honour.—What an old fool it is!
[Aside.