[Exeunt all but ROSE and CLEVELAND.
ROSE. Major Cleveland, Captain Armstrong must be allowed to go free. I have your promise. I hold you to it.
CLEVELAND. My promise—
ROSE. Look! [Pointing to the signet received from the MAJOR.
CLEVELAND. Aha! Then it was Captain Armstrong, and not Captain Arbald, to whom you alluded in our interview. I was beginning to suspect the trick.
ROSE. Your shrewdness would have done you more credit if you had detected it before. As it is, I have your signet and your promise to save Captain Armstrong.
CLEVELAND. But the promise referred only to your husband.
ROSE. Captain Armstrong is my betrothed husband.
CLEVELAND. Ay, but at present is a prisoner. You see, madam, I hold the cards.
ROSE. Your pardon, sir, but I have the game.