Good-night. [Exit Gregory lighting her out, R.

R. I am now secure of her: since in my presence

She hath so consented to disgrace her idol.

He is quite dethroned: she knows too that I know.

He is past recovery. Could she but have seen him

Walking with Laura in the garden, plotting

Their flight to-morrow! And I to climb by such

A ladder of comedy, tottering with laughter,

To love’s very heaven! After three years of pain

Three days of farce, disguise, and folly; and then,