Sos. ’Tis enough; I’ll take care; now let’s go in-doors.
Sim. You go first; I’ll follow.
Sosia goes into the house of Simo.
Sim. (to himself.) There’s no doubt but that my son doesn’t wish for a wife; so alarmed did I perceive Davus to be just now, when he heard that there was going to be a marriage. But the very man is coming out of the house.
Stands aside.
[ Scene II.]
Enter Davus from the house of Simo.
Dav. (aloud to himself.) I was wondering if this matter was to go off thus; and was continually dreading where my master’s good humor would end; for, after he had heard that a wife would not be given to his son, he never uttered a word to any one of us, or took it amiss.
Sim. (apart, overhearing him.) But now he’ll do so: and that, I fancy, not without heavy cost to you.
Dav. (to himself.) He meant this, that we, thus unsuspecting, should be led away by delusive joy; that now in hope, all fear being removed, we might during our supineness be surprised, so that there might be no time for planning a rupture of the marriage. How clever!