Geta. Nay, weep not, mistress; but consider rather

What course were best to follow: to conceal

This wrong, or to disclose it to some friend?

Can. Disclose it! Are you mad? Is this a thing

To be disclos’d, d’ye think?

Geta. I’d not advise it.

For first, that he has quite abandon’d us,

The thing itself declares. If we then make

The story known, no doubt but he’ll deny it.

Your reputation, and your daughter’s life