The couple face him as he enters, stops

Short, stands surprised a moment, laughs away

Surprise, resumes the much-experienced man.

"So, you accept him?"

"Till us death do part!"

"No longer? Come, that 's right and rational!

I fancied there was power in common sense,

But did not know it worked thus promptly. Well—

At last each understands the other, then?

Each drops disguise, then? So, at supper-time