Gril. [Aside.] Well, I dare trust my niece, even though she comes of my own family; but if she cuckolds my good opinion of her honesty, there's a whole sex fallen under a general rule, without one exception.
[Exeunt Gril. and Alph.
Mar. You bid my uncle wait you.
King. Yes.
Mar. This hour?
King. I think it was.
Mar. Something of moment hangs upon this hour.
King. Not more on this, than on the next, and next.
My time is all ta'en up on usury;
I never am beforehand with my hours,
But every one has work before it comes.
096 Mar. "There's something for my service to be done;"—
Those were your words.
King. And you desire their meaning?
Mar. I dare not ask, and yet, perhaps, may guess.