Your father is good—he loves you.
LANDBERGEN.
You do not know all, Sir: it is now four days since I left home, and—— No, I cannot, I dare not say more.
CHARLES.
Be not afraid to open your whole heart to me; repentance expiates every fault; your earthly as well as your heavenly father will forgive you.
LANDBERGEN.
You will despise me, Sir.
CHARLES.
No; any one who goes astray, and returns again to virtue, merits our respect.
LANDBERGEN.