That there’s no other way to make them friends,

But that I should not take her home again.

Lach. You don’t know that: but ’tis of no importance

Whether they’re friends or not, when Sostrata

Is gone into the country. We old folks

Are odious to the young. We’d best retire.

In short, we’re grown a by-word, Pamphilus,

“The old man and old woman.”—But I see

Phidippus coming in good time. Let’s meet him!

[ SCENE VI.]