Mab.But you are twenty-one?
Fred.I’ve just discovered
That I was born in leap year, and that birthday
Will not be reached by me till 1940.
Mab.Oh, horrible! catastrophe appalling!
Fred.And so, farewell!
Mab. No, no! Oh, Frederic, hear me.
Duet.—Mabel and Frederic.
Mab.Stay, Frederic, stay!
They have no legal claim;