JOSEPH. Please, ma’am—and wishes to know if you are disengaged?
MRS. P. I’ll come to him. (Exit JOSEPH R. H.) How shall I meet him? how conceal my feelings? Once more, poor little fluttering heart, be still! (Aside, and looking at FANNY). Poor Fanny! I shall be sorry to cut her out; but constancy like Vicessimus’s deserves, and shall have, its reward!
[Exit at R. H.
FANNY. There! I flatter myself I’ve managed that rather cleverly. I’ve given tranquillity to Jeremiah, happiness to Georgina; I’ve got mamma a husband, and— But stop a bit! who’s to get one for me? Oh dear, dear! I haven’t half done yet!
Enter MRS. MAJOR very hurriedly at C.
MRS. MAJOR. Oh! what shall I do? what shall I do?
FANNY. Georgina dear, what’s the matter?
MRS. MAJOR. Oh, Fanny, such an event! I quite forgot to tell you that a person—I can’t call him a gentleman—has been following me about everywhere in the most persevering, the most audacious manner, for the last month!
FANNY. What a contrast to Augustus!