DICKON In Rome, your Excellency.

MISTRESS DODGE [To Justice Merton.] Why, I thought it was in London.

JUSTICE MERTON London, true, quite so; we made a trip together to Lisbon—ah! Rome.

DICKON Paris, was it not, sir?

JUSTICE MERTON [In great distress.] Paris, Paris, very true; I am—I am—sometimes I am— [Enter Micah, right.]

MICAH [Announces.] Lord Ravensbane. [Enter right, Ravensbane with Rachel.]

JUSTICE MERTON [With a gasp of relief.] Ah! his lordship is arrived. [Murmurs of “his lordship” and a flutter among the girls and Captain Bugby.]

CAPTAIN BUGBY Look!—Now!

JUSTICE MERTON Welcome, my lord! [To Sir Charles.] Permit me, your Excellency, to introduce—

RAVENSBANE Permit me; Mistress Rachel will introduce—