SIMON. (rising) What do you please to want?
FRANK. I wish to see Mr. or Mrs. Mitchell.
SIMON. Oh! either of them would do, then?
FRANK. (L. C.) Yes.
SIMON. (R. C.) That’s lucky, for they are both gone out.
FRANK. Out! then I will await their return.
SIMON. I don’t think you will, sir.
FRANK. How do you mean?
SIMON. Why, when master and missus went away this morning, they said they were going on a visit, and should be away nine or ten days—and the same number of nights too, no doubt.
FRANK. (aside) Pleasant information! all this distance from London, and not a shilling in my pocket. (to SIMON) Are you alone here?