LYDIA Obligation! why a water spaniel would have done as much!—Well, I should never think of giving my heart to a man because he could swim.
JULIA
Come, Lydia, you are too inconsiderate.
LYDIA
Nay, I do but jest.—What's here?
[Re-enter LUCY in a hurry.]
LUCY
O ma'am, here is Sir Anthony Absolute just come home with your aunt.
LYDIA
They'll not come here.—Lucy, do you watch.
[Exit LUCY.]
JULIA Yet I must go. Sir Anthony does not know I am here, and if we meet, he'll detain me, to show me the town. I'll take another opportunity of paying my respects to Mrs. Malaprop, when she shall treat me, as long as she chooses, with her select words so ingeniously misapplied, without being mispronounced.
[Re-enter LUCY.]
LUCY
O Lud! ma'am, they are both coming up stairs.