TRUF. Pshaw!
MASC. (Aside). We are undone if this conversation lasts long.
TRUF. I should very much like to know their adventures; aboard what ship did my adverse fate…?
MASC. I do not know what is the matter with me, I do nothing but yawn. But, Signor Trufaldin, perhaps this stranger may want some refreshment; besides, it grows late.
LEL. No refreshment for me.
MASC. Oh sir, you are more hungry than you imagine.
TRUF. Please to walk in then.
LEL. After you, sir.
[Footnote: It shows that Lelio knows not what he is about when he does the honours of the house to the master of the house himself, and forgets that as a stranger he ought to go in first.]
MASC. (To Trufaldin). Sir, in Armenia, the masters of the house use no ceremony. (To Lelio, after Trufaldin has gone in). Poor fellow, have you not a word to say for yourself?