Elv. (apart). Deny it all, there’s many a step between
Suspicion and assurance.
Fel. You, Elvira,
(My sister cannot) tell me what has happen’d.
Elv. Oh, nothing but a swoon, sir:
My mistress fainted: that is all: accounts
For all her paleness and discomfiture.
Fel. ’Twas that I heard.
Elv. I do assure you, sir,
We thought her dead—however she dissemble