[Enter Richard. Mistress Merton seizes his arm nervously.]
MISTRESS MERTON [Aside.] Well?
RICHARD Gold will not buy her. She defies us.
SIR CHARLES [To Captain Bugby.] This gentleman’s playing is rather ventriloquistical.
CAPTAIN BUGBY Quite, as it were.
REV. MASTER TODD This smells unholy.
REV. MASTER RAND [To Todd.] Shall we leave?
JUSTICE MERTON [Sternly to Richard, who has attempted to talk with him aside.] Not now.
RICHARD Pardon me—it must be now.
JUSTICE MERTON Squire Talbot—