SURFACE. Indeed I do not.—[Aside.] O certainly I do—for then my dear Lady Teazle would also be convinced how wrong her suspicions were of my having any design on the silly Girl——
LADY TEAZLE. Well—well I'm inclined to believe you—besides I really never could perceive why she should have so any admirers.
SURFACE. O for her Fortune—nothing else—
LADY TEAZLE. I believe so for tho' she is certainly very pretty—yet she has no conversation in the world—and is so grave and reserved—that I declare I think she'd have made an excellent wife for Sir Peter.—
SURFACE. So she would.
LADY TEAZLE. Then—one never hears her speak ill of anybody—which you know is mighty dull—
SURFACE. Yet she doesn't want understanding—
LADY TEAZLE. No more she does—yet one is always disapointed when one hears [her] speak—For though her Eyes have no kind of meaning in them—she very seldom talks Nonsense.
SURFACE. Nay—nay surely—she has very fine eyes—
LADY TEAZLE. Why so she has—tho' sometimes one fancies there's a little sort of a squint—