Clin. Were nothing the matter, they certainly would have been here by this.

Pam. Nonsense. Doesn’t it strike you it’s some way off? and then

You know how it is with women, they are always about a year

Putting on their things and getting themselves up.

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Clin. But only fancy if really she should have forgotten me!

Yes,—while like a fool I ran away from home,

And wandered I know not where, fall’n in deep disgrace,

Undutiful to my father, for whom I am now sorry

And ashamed of my conduct towards him;—thou, yes, O thou hast