[Takes the box and throws.
Capt. The pretty lively thing!
Lady Ara. With all her heart; what says her mama?
Lady Head. She says she don't love to sit with her hands before her, when other people's are employed.
Capt. And this is the prettiest little sociable work, men and women can all do together at it.
Lady Head. Colonel, you are one with us, are you not?
Lady Ara. O, I'll answer for him, he'll be out at nothing.
Capt. In a facetious way; he is the politest person; he will lose his money to the ladies so civilly, and will win theirs with so much good breeding; and he will be so modest to 'em before company, and so impudent to 'em in a dark corner. Ha! colonel!
Lady Head. So I found him, I'm sure, last night——Mercy on me, an ounce of virtue less than I had, and Sir Francis had been undone.