MARWOOD.
If you permit me (Mellefont conducts her out).
SARA (alone).
Poor thing! She does not seem exactly the most friendly of people; but yet she does not appear to be either proud or ill-tempered. I am alone again. Can I employ the few moments, while I remain so, better than by finishing my answer? (Is about to sit down to write.)
Scene VI.
Betty, Sara.
BETTY.
That was indeed a very short visit.
SARA.
Yes, Betty! It was Lady Solmes, a relation of my Mellefont. She was suddenly taken faint. Where is she now?