Fl. Here, Plumper, you’re a medical man, just come in the nick of time. This gentleman here has been personating you for some reason or other, and the discovery caused the young lady to faint. Mysterious, isn’t it?
Ad. Not at all, when you come to know the circumstances. Here is my card; and you will find me ready to make any apology or offer you any satisfaction you may require. Meantime, Dr Plumper, let me implore you to assist me in bringing her to.
Pl. There now, my gug-gug-good lady, take a smell of this. There now, we are beginning to feel beb-beb-better already.
[Aside.] Most extraordinary coincidence, Flamm: this is the same lady and gentleman we travelled up to town with a kuk-kuk-couple of months ago; and you remarked upon our wonderful resemblance to each other. Horrid bob-bob-bore, a fellow’s being so like you; he can pip-pip-play all sorts of tricks upon you. Just a chance he did not get me into a did-did-devil of a scrape with Jemima.
Fl. [aside]. Well, you can always pay him off in his own coin—that is, if you shave your head, and throw away your spectacles, and give up stammering.
Pl. [aside]. But I can’t—that’s where he has the pup-pup-pull over me. [Aloud.] There now, one or two bib-bib-breaths, and we are all right. Now, dud-dud-don’t go off again; it can be all satisfactorily explained. [Aside.] Hang me if I know how!
El. [opens her eyes while Plumper is bending over her—screams]. Oh, Adolphus!—[shuts them again]
Pl. There, there, my gug-gug-good lady, I’m not Adolphus; at least I am Adolphus, bub-bub-but not your Adolphus. Here, Mr Gresham, if you’re her Ad-dod-dod-dod-ol-phus, you’d better take her.
El. [opens her eyes, sees Adolphus bending over her—screams]. Oh, where am I?—[shuts them again.]
Pl. In the arms of your Adolphus. We’re bub-bub-both Adolphuses. I suppose, if you’ll rouse yourself a little, you’ll soon fif-fif-find out which is the right one.