BERINTHIA.
I have been walking!
COLONEL TOWNLY.
Is that all? Pray was it Mr. Loveless went from here just now?
BERINTHIA.
O yes—he has been walking with me.
COLONEL TOWNLY.
He has!
BERINTHIA.
Upon my word I think he is a very agreeable man; and there is certainly something particularly insinuating in his address.
COLONEL TOWNLY.
[Aside.] So, so! she hasn’t even the modesty to dissemble! [Aloud.] Pray, madam, may I, without impertinence, trouble you with a few serious questions?
BERINTHIA.
As many as you please; but pray let them be as little serious as possible.
COLONEL TOWNLY.
Is it not near two years since I have presumed to address you?
BERINTHIA.
I don’t know exactly—but it has been a tedious long time.
COLONEL TOWNLY.
Have I not, during that period, had every reason to believe that my assiduities were far from being unacceptable?