Par. Master, may I not be allowed to know from you what is the good that I have done to-day, or what it is you are talking about?
Pam. You may not.
Par. Still I suspect. “I restore him, when dead, from the shades below.”[63] In what way?
Pam. You don’t know, Parmeno, how much you have benefited me to-day, and from what troubles you have extricated me.
Par. Nay, but indeed I do know: and I did not do it without design.
Pam. I know that well enough (ironically).
Bacch. Could Parmeno, from negligence, omit any thing that ought to be done?
Pam. Follow me in, Parmeno.
Par. I’ll follow; for my part, I have done more good to-day, without knowing it, than ever I did, knowingly, in all my life. (Coming forward.) Grant us your applause.[64]