For you in sighs I hail the rising day,
To you at eve I sing the lovesick lay;
Then take my love, my homage as your due—
The Devil's in her, if all this won't do."
It must be confessed that the pretty and smiling and blushing Miss Georgie Lestrange looked just a little self-conscious as she had to listen to this extremely frank declaration; but she had the part of the coquettish Pastora to play; and Pastora, as soon as she discovers that Damon has no thought of marriage, naturally declines to have anything to do with him. And here came in the duet which had first suggested this escapade:
"You say at your feet that I wept in despair,
And vow'd that no angel was ever so fair;