Yes, but I must not be guilty of continuing such follies. It is a villainous example to my grandchildren.... Farewell.
(Falstaff draws close to her and takes both her hands in his. He looks her in the eyes and draws himself very erect.)
FALSTAFF
How I loved you!
LADY SYLVIA
I know and I thank you for your gift, my lover, O brave, true lover, whose love I was not ever ashamed to own! Farewell, my dear, yet a little while, and I go to seek the boy and girl we know of.
FALSTAFF
I shall not be long, madam. Speak a kind word for me in Heaven; for I have sore need of it.
LADY SYLVIA
(By this time she has reached the door) You are not sorry that I came?