BOX. Generous, ill-fated being! (affected).
COX. And to think that I tossed up for such a woman!
BOX. When I remember that I staked such a treasure on the hazard of a die!
COX. I’m sure, Mr. Box, I can’t sufficiently thank you for your sympathy.
BOX. And I’m sure, Mr. Cox, you couldn’t feel more, if she had been your own intended!
COX. If she’d been my own intended? She was my own intended!
BOX. Your intended? Come, I like that! Didn’t you very properly observe just now, sir, that I proposed to her first?
COX. To which you very sensibly replied that you’d come to an untimely end.
BOX. I deny it!
COX. I say you have!