Mrs Brain. Could I do it, ungrateful as you are, with more obligation to you, or more hazard to myself, than by putting my note into your glove?
Wood. Was it yours, then? I believed it came from Mrs Tricksy.
Mrs Brain. You wished it so; which made you so easily believe it. I heard the pleasant dialogue betwixt you.
Wood. I am glad you did; for you could not but observe, with how much care I avoided all occasions 081 of railing at you; to which she urged me, like a malicious woman, as she was.
Mrs Brain. By the same token, you vowed and swore never to look on Mrs Brainsick!
Wood. But I had my mental reservations in a readiness. I had vowed fidelity to you before; and there went my second oath, i'faith: it vanished in a twinkling, and never gnawed my conscience in the least.
Mrs Brain. Well, I shall never heartily forgive you.
Jud. [Within.] Mr Brainsick, Mr Brainsick, what do you mean, to make my lady lose her game thus? Pray, come back, and take up her cards again.
Mrs Brain. My husband, as I live! Well, for all my quarrel to you, step immediately into that little dark closet: it is for my private occasions; there is no lock, but he will not stay.
Wood. Thus am I ever tantalized![Goes in.