Limb. Mr Woodall, we leave you here—you remember? [Exeunt Limb. and Aldo.
Wood. Let me alone.—Ladies, your servant; I have a little private business with a friend of mine.
Mrs Brain. Meaning me.—Well, sir, your servant.
Trick. Your servant, till we meet again. [Exeunt severally.
SCENE II.—Mr Woodall's Chamber.
Mrs Brainsick alone.
Mrs Brain. My note has taken, as I wished: he will be here immediately. If I could but resolve to lose no time, out of modesty; but it is his part to be violent, for both our credits. Never so little force and ruffling, and a poor weak woman is excused. [Noise.] Hark, I hear him coming.—Ah me! the steps beat double: He comes not alone. If it should be my husband with him! where shall I hide myself? I see no other place, but under his bed: I must lie as silently as my fear will suffer me. Heaven send me safe again to my own chamber!
[Creeps under the Bed.
066 Enter Woodall and Tricksy.
Wood. Well, fortune at the last is favourable, and now you are my prisoner.
Trick. After a quarter of an hour, I suppose, I shall have my liberty upon easy terms. But pray let us parley a little first.