Lady S. Your mistress, Tristram: I could tell at once.
Sir T. After the play: I cannot see you now.
[Withdraws into the Dressing-room.]
Lady S. "Do you know that Warwick Groom and "Martha Sackville were lovers? She visited him "every night in his dressing-room at the Parthenon "when he played Romeo——"
Sir T.
[Entering the Reception-room and closing the door of the
Dressing-room.]
Give me that letter!
Lady S. It's bitten in my brain.— "—And the reason why he insisted on beginning the "fourth act with the fifth scene of the third act was "the reason you guess at once: it gave them time. "But that was not the only place in the play where "they performed their private intermede. How this "was managed? Ask old Odham, Groom's dresser."
Sir T. You stole that letter.
Lady S. I stole it.
Sir T. Give it me.
Lady S. I burnt it in the forest: the flame of it
Was like a passion-flower.
Sir T. That crude account
Of nauseous lust!