Sim. I gave you warning, I forbade you with threats to do it. Have you been awed? What has it availed? Am I to believe you now in this, that this woman has had a child by Pamphilus?
Dav. (aside.) I understand where he’s mistaken; and I see what I must do.
Sim. Why are you silent?
Dav. What would you believe? As though word had not been brought you that thus it would happen.
Sim. Any word brought to me?
Dav. Come now, did you of your own accord perceive that this was counterfeited?
Sim. I am being trifled with.
Dav. Word has been brought you; for otherwise how could this suspicion have occurred to you?
Sim. How? Because I knew you.
Dav. As though you meant to say that this has been done by my contrivance.