T. (to Fl., shewing and shaking purse). Look here! Listen here!

FLORA.

1310

What have you there?

T. Money,—ducats: all ducats.

D. (reading aloud). I could not have chosen, among all my friends, one more discreet and serviceable than is Ricardo. There is nothing so difficult that he has not experience for it ... nothing so private but that he may not well be trusted with it.... He has been accustomed to manage all my affairs....

Fl. (to T.). But where did you get them, Tristram?

T. Ah! She gave them me.

1320

Fl. The Countess! What for?