[Exit F.D.
Miss Mac. The most pleasant piece of intelligence I have heard to-day.
Re-enter MISS MEADOWS, F.E.L.
Miss Mea. Has he gone?
Miss Mac. To my great delight he has.
Miss Mea. Will he return?
Miss Mac. I have great hopes that he will not.
Miss Mea. Why does he refuse to explain all to me?
Miss Mac. As he has not asked you any questions, and appears quite willing to take a blind bargain in marrying you, I think it is but fair that you should be equally as ridiculous as the gentleman.
Miss Mea. You make no allowance for a woman’s natural curiosity—her proneness to jealousy, weaknesses that do not beset the minds of men so cruelly as they do ours. He knows that, and ought to have yielded!