LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR.
’Tis, my soul! your truest slave, passing on your father in this disguise.
LAURETTA.
Well now, I declare this is charming—you are so disguised, my dear lieutenant, and you look so delightfully ugly. I am sure no one will find you out, ha! ha! ha!—You know I am under your protection; papa charged you to keep close to me.
LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR.
True, my angel, and thus let me fulfil——
LAURETTA.
O pray now, dear Humphrey——
LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR.
Nay, ’tis but what old Mittimus commanded. [Offers to kiss her.]
Re-enter JUSTICE CREDULOUS.
JUSTICE CREDULOUS.
Laury, my—hey! what the devil’s here?
LAURETTA.
Well now, one kiss, and be quiet.
JUSTICE CREDULOUS.
Your very humble servant, honest Humphrey! Don’t let me— pray don’t let me interrupt you!
LAURETTA.
Lud, papa! Now that’s so good-natured—indeed there’s no harm. You did not mean any rudeness, did you, Humphrey?