Laura:
And you can see from the effects the reward which is your due.
Cadwell: I know that I should thank you for the indifference you have shown me for some time.
Laura: Don't arrogate to yourself the scorn I intend to bear you for the rest of my life.
Cadwell:
You taught me yesterday that I must learn to expect it.
Laura: Infidel! I have never passed a day without giving you some proof of my affection.
Cadwell: Real affections, madam, that respond so ill to the urgings of my letter without any explanation. But let's not speak of that.
Laura:
What letter, perfidious one. What do you mean to say?
Cadwell:
Oh let's stop talking. Spare me such names.
Laura: No, no. I mean for you to explain yourself. I can justify myself very easily and I will have some pleasure in doing so after the blackest, most cowardly— Continue once more. What letter do you wish to speak to me of?
Cadwell: Oh, madam, what's the use of it? The letter Bendish gave you yesterday.