Chr.And there you stand,

As dull as a fish! Why, what will you think, if this be true,

Of finding a sister?

Pam.Sir, you wished me a happy day:

As nothing was more unlooked for, nothing is happier

In the world than this.

Chr.Yet there’s your friend, a perfect stranger.

Is far more moved than you. You go to the play, I know:

Fifty per cent. of all our Attic comedies

Have this same plot, a daughter stolen in early years,