HOLD. More visitors?
Enter ROBERT, L.
ROBERT. A man wants to see Fanny Pepper. He has found a basket in the river directed to—
FANNY. Send him away. I don’t want it. Oh, I forgot that in my joy—I forgot there was two of them. I will not have the basket.
EUCLID. No. Robert, kick the man down stairs and the basket after him.
HOLD. Nonsense! You don’t know what’s in the basket.
FANNY. Oh, but I do.
EUCLID. No, you don’t.
FANNY. No, no—no more I do. But I hate baskets; they frightened me, when a child, with a wicker-work rattle.
HOLD. It may be something valuable.