Cadwell: Peace!
Bendish: I went for your scarf--
Cadwell: Shut up!
Bendish: Your jerkin--
Cadwell: Will you shut up!
Bendish: (aside) Listen!
Cadwell: Bendish?
Bendish: Sir?
Cadwell: Give me the mirror. (Bendish goes and returns with the objects as they are called for) Listen--my snuff box--wait--bring the armchair-- Eh!
My writing table.-- No, give me a comb. Come on then,--will you hurry up?
Bendish: Tell me exactly what you want--
Cadwell: I don't know. I want to sit down. (aside) Madam Olivia, madam Olivia, you have played me at trick--
(Enter Jenny)
Jenny: Madam, wants to know if you sup here?
Cadwell: Why, Jenny?
Jenny: Because if you don't sup here she will go in town.
Cadwell: I don't wish to constrain her, Jenny.
Jenny: Eh! You don't constrain her as much as you think. Are you supping here or not?
Cadwell: I will sup here if that will give her pleasure.
Jenny: I will go tell madam.
(Exit Jenny)
Cadwell: Do you know what has happened?
Bendish: n.o.body is speaking of anything else downstairs.
Cadwell: But is Laura persuaded that the thing is as I wish her to understand it?
Bendish: Apparently, since she wanted to know if you will sup with her.
Cadwell: On my oath, this is really funny.
Bendish: Very droll.
Cadwell: a.s.suredly, she doubts nothing. What she has just sent to ask confirms that sufficiently. But finish. What did Caroline want with me?
Bendish: That she never wants to see you; that she regards you at all times as a man without faith, without honor, slanderous, indiscreet, a traitor, rascal, unfaithful.
Cadwell: Eh! What did you say?
Bendish: I said nothing, sir. It was Charlotte. (pulling from his pocket a pair of gloves and presenting them to Cadwell) Still, she gave me a pair of gloves to oblige you to go there. (The Pet.i.te Chevalier appears) Wait --here's her nephew who has come to fetch you without a doubt.
(Enter the Little Gentleman)
L. Gent.: Eh! Good day my friend.
Cadwell: Eh: Good day child. Where are you going?
L. Gent.: I've come to see you. Are you angry about it?
Cadwell: No, not at all. Hold on then.
L. Gent.: I intend to kiss you.
Cadwell: (embracing him) Here's the way it's done.
L. Gent.: (embracing Cadwell a second time) And for my aunt, don't I get one?
Cadwell: (retiring) Well--is it enough? Fie then, little trickster, you've ruined my wig.
L. Gent.: Yes, that's true. I made a big b.o.o.boo. (to Bendish) Eh. Good day, Bendish. (presenting his hand to Bendish) Touch that.
Bendish: (touching his hand) That's how it is done.
Cadwell: Give him a seat.
L. Gent.: No. I don't know how to stay seated.
Bendish: (to Cadwell) Can he be trusted?
Cadwell: (to Little Gentleman) Come here.
L. Gent.: (throwing Cadwell's wig on the floor) Well?
Cadwell: What a villain to father a child like this! Isn't it time to grow wise?
L. Gent.: And you who are much larger than I? My aunt says you are not very wise.
Cadwell: Your aunt is crazy. Was it she who sent you here?
L. Gent.: She bet me half a crown that I wouldn't dare to come here to see if you were home.