ABSOLUTE Then to cure your anxiety at once—Miss Melville is in perfect health, and is at this moment in Bath.
FAULKLAND
Nay, Jack—don't trifle with me.
ABSOLUTE
She is arrived here with my father within this hour.
FAULKLAND
Can you be serious?
ABSOLUTE I thought you knew Sir Anthony better than to be surprised at a sudden whim of this kind.—Seriously, then, it is as I tell you—upon my honour.
FAULKLAND My dear friend!—Hollo, Du-Peigne! my hat.—My dear Jack—now nothing on earth can give me a moment's uneasiness.
[Re-enter FAG.]
FAG
Sir, Mr. Acres, just arrived, is below.
ABSOLUTE Stay, Faulkland, this Acres lives within a mile of Sir Anthony, and he shall tell you how your mistress has been ever since you left her.—Fag, show this gentleman up.
[Exit FAG.]