“I have not, my lord.”
“Then make what haste back to him you can. He must not be alone with bumpkins! You may stay there with him till I send for you—only mind you go on with your studies. Now be off. I am at home but for a few hours on business, and leave again by the afternoon coach!”
“I do not go, my lord, until I have seen my mistress.”
“Your mistress! Who, pray, is your mistress!”
“I am no longer in your service, my lord.”
“Then what, in the name of God, have you done with my son?”
“In good time, my lord, when you have told me where my mistress is! I am in this house as lady Arctura’s servant; and I desire to know where I shall find her.”
“In London.”
“What address, please your lordship? I will wait her orders here.”
“You will leave this house at once,” said the earl. “I will not have you here in both her ladyship’s absence and my own.”