ACRES Odso! she and your father can be but just arrived before me:—I suppose you have seen them. Ah! Mr. Faulkland, you are indeed a happy man.
FAULKLAND I have not seen Miss Melville yet, sir;—I hope she enjoyed full health and spirits in Devonshire?
ACRES Never knew her better in my life, sir,—never better. Odds blushes and blooms! she has been as healthy as the German Spa.
FAULKLAND
Indeed! I did hear that she had been a little indisposed.
ACRES False, false, sir—only said to vex you: quite the reverse, I assure you.
FAULKLAND There, Jack, you see she has the advantage of me; I had almost fretted myself ill.
ABSOLUTE
Now are you angry with your mistress for not having been sick?
FAULKLAND No, no, you misunderstand me: yet surely a little trifling indisposition is not an unnatural consequence of absence from those we love.—Now confess—isn't there something unkind in this violent, robust, unfeeling health?
ABSOLUTE
Oh, it was very unkind of her to be well in your absence, to be sure!
ACRES
Good apartments, Jack.