CAPTAIN BUGBY Oh, my dear Mistress Reddington! Charming Mistress Amelia! You are so very late, but you shall hear—hush!
MISTRESS REDDINGTON [Noticing his pipe.] Why, what is this, Captain?
CAPTAIN BUGBY Oh, the latest, I assure you, the very latest. Wait till you see his lordship.
AMELIA What! isn’t he here? [Laughing.] La, Captain! Do look at the man!
CAPTAIN BUGBY Oh, he’s coming directly. Quite the mode—what? Ah! but, ladies, you shall hear. [He talks to them aside, where they titter.]
SIR CHARLES [To Dickon.] What say? Travelling for his health?
DICKON Partially, your Excellency; but my young pupil and master is a singularly affectionate nature.
THE TWO GIRLS [To Captain Bugby.] What! flails—really! [They burst into laughter among themselves.]
DICKON He has journeyed here to Massachusetts peculiarly to pay this visit to Justice Merton—his father’s dearest friend.