Chrem. Ye Gods, by our trust in you! How often do those things come about through accident, which you couldn’t dare to hope for? On my return, I have found my daughter matched with the very person I wished, and just as I wanted; a thing that we were both using our endeavors, with the greatest earnestness, to bring about. Without any very great management on our part, by her own management, she has by herself brought this about.
Soph. Now consider what’s to be done. The young man’s father has returned, and they say that he bears this with feelings highly offended.
Chrem. There’s no danger of that. But, by Gods and men, do take care that no one comes to know that she’s my daughter.
Soph. No one shall know it from me.
Chrem. Follow me; in-doors we’ll hear the rest.
He goes into Demipho’s house, followed by Sophrona.
[ ACT THE FOURTH.]
[ Scene I.]
Enter Demipho and Geta.
Dem. ’Tis caused by our own fault, that it is advantageous to be dishonest; while we wish ourselves to be styled very honest and generous. “So run away as not to run beyond the house,”[75] as the saying is. Was it not enough to receive an injury from him, but money must be voluntarily offered him as well, that he may have something on which to subsist while he plans some other piece of roguery?