SENDEN.
Meanwhile I will start the fund for the purchase of the newspaper. I bid you good day. [Exit.]
COLONEL.
Pardon me, Adelaide, if I leave you alone. I have some letters to write, and [with a forced laugh] my newspapers to read.
ADELAIDE (sympathetically).
May I not stay with you now, of all times?
COLONEL (with an effort).
I shall be better off alone, now.
[Exit through centre door.]
ADELAIDE (alone).