FORE. ’Tis not convenient to tell you now. Mr. Scandal, heav’n keep us all in our senses—I fear there is a contagious frenzy abroad. How does Valentine?
SCAN. Oh, I hope he will do well again. I have a message from him to your niece Angelica.
FORE. I think she has not returned since she went abroad with Sir Sampson. Nurse, why are you not gone?
SCENE VIII.
Foresight, Scandal, Mrs. Foresight, Ben.
MRS. FORE. Here’s Mr. Benjamin, he can tell us if his father be come home.
BEN. Who? Father? Ay, he’s come home with a vengeance.
MRS. FORE. Why, what’s the matter?
BEN. Matter! Why, he’s mad.
FORE. Mercy on us, I was afraid of this. And there’s the handsome young woman, she, as they say, brother Val went mad for, she’s mad too, I think.