The School for Scandal

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[Exit SIR OLIVER.]

ROWLEY. We'll follow—

SIR PETER. She is not coming here you see, Rowley—

ROWLEY. No but she has left the Door of that Room open you perceive.—see she is in Tears—!

SIR PETER. She seems indeed to wish I should go to her.—how dejected she appears—

ROWLEY. And will you refrain from comforting her—

SIR PETER. Certainly a little mortification appears very becoming in a wife—don't you think it will do her good to let her Pine a little.

ROWLEY. O this is ungenerous in you—

SIR PETER. Well I know not what to think—you remember Rowley the Letter I found of her's—evidently intended for Charles?

ROWLEY. A mere forgery, Sir Peter—laid in your way on Purpose—this is one of the Points which I intend Snake shall give you conviction on—