CLEVELAND. I am bewildered—I cannot understand—
ROSE. Can't you see? [Imitating him.] "How would you like to make twenty pounds? Ha, ha, ha! only as jest! a splendid jest! we'll have such a run on the Captain! As I want pastime, and my prospects—"
CLEVELAND. The wench has betrayed me.
ROSE. You never spoke a word to Bridget. I was the only person you saw.
CLEVELAND. You!
ROSE. Even I. Did I act it to the life?
CLEVELAND. Caught! Tricked! Fool! By—! Madam, this is a farce.
ROSE. Sir, I know it, but it has been played out, and you unwittingly have acted the clown.
ELSWORTH. I am confounded.
CLEVELAND. The end is not yet. I refuse to be governed by a forced construction to a promise which I meant to apply differently. The rebel is still my prisoner. He is surrounded.