Min. Well, if some one did but know, how happy would some one be, that for his sake——
Oliv. Now, don't be impertinent, Minette. You have several times attempted to slide yourself into a secret, which I am resolved to keep to myself. Continue faithful, and suppress your curiosity.
[Exit, r.
Min. Suppress my curiosity, madam!—why, I am a chambermaid, and a sorry one too, it should seem, to have been in your confidence two years, and never have got the master-secret yet. I never was six weeks in a family before, but I knew every secret they had in it for three generations; ay, and I'll know this too, or I'll blow up all her plans, and declare to the world, that she is no more a vixen than other fine ladies——they have most of them a touch on't.
[Exit, r.
ACT II.
SCENE I.—An Apartment at Donna Laura's.
Enter Laura, followed by Carlos, l.
Car. Nay, madam, you may as well stop here, for I'll follow you through every apartment, but I will be heard. [Seizing her hand.]
Laura. This insolence is not to be endured; within my own walls to be thus——
Car. The time has been, when within your walls I might be master.