Jenny: If I hadn't seen him play the same role with her a thousand times, I wouldn't know what to say. He made me cry in the beginning, but now I am cured.— But you, madam, who speak as if you wish to help your brother, who can do it better than you? For I'm not blind. I've noticed for a long time that Cadwell watches you, and because I see that you respond well enough to all his tricks, I believe that you are not lacking in what it takes to prevail on his passion and undeceive Laura.
Olivia: You have good eyes, Jenny. Well, since you have observed it, I am going to make you my confidant. It's something I've thought of for some time, but it's the last remedy I wish to employ because I find it the most shameful.
Jenny:
Bah, madam, it is not shameful to punish a rascal.
Olivia:
Besides, I'm afraid he will distrust me.
Jenny:
Indeed! Him! He wouldn't distrust you if you told him you hated him.
He is so sure of his own worth that he thinks people are forced to
love him just by looking at him.—I hear someone. Perhaps it's him.
He'll fall in any trap you set for him.
Olivia:
He's more clever than you can imagine.
Jenny: If he didn't do foolish things he wouldn't need all his trickery. It's for you to embroil him so well that nothing he can do will be enough to get him out of it.
Olivia:
Let me do it.
(Exit Jenny) (Then enter Cadwell)
Cadwell: (with pretended embarrassment)
I don't know what I ought to do, madam.