Crito. Prepared! for what?
Simo. Do you ask? Can you think that you shall do these things with impunity? Can you think that you will be suffered to insnare inexperienced and respectable young men? and flatter them with fair words and fine promises?
Crito. Are you in your senses?
Simo. And, at last, conclude this shameful fraud, by marrying them to their mistresses?
Pam. (aside.) I am undone? Crito, I fear, will not be able to maintain his ground.
Chremes. [201]Simo, if you knew this stranger as well as I do, you would think better of him: he is a worthy man.
Simo. He a worthy man? but yes, it was very good of him to be sure to come here so opportunely on the day of my son’s marriage! he! who was never at Athens before! Chremes, ought such a man to be believed?
Pam. (aside.) I could easily explain that circumstance; but I fear my interference would offend my father.
Simo. A sycophant[202].
Crito. What!