FLE. Will you go?
JONES. I'm going, sir. (_aside_) I am studying "French without a
master," that I may read the English drama in the original.
[_Exit, L._
FLE. So there's an end of our intended private rehearsal.
HOL. If I simply express to her my desire to press her to my heart,
she would laugh at me. Heaven's will be done! Would I could find some
way--can you not help me?
FLE. Did you not say but now that you knew by heart the scene in my
piece where the father discovers his daughter?
HOL. Yes, sir.
FLE. Capital! You shall embrace your daughter.
HOL. Indeed! How--when--where?
FLE. Here--now.
HOL. I shall embrace her--she will permit me to do so, and yet she
shall not know?
FLE. She shall know nothing.
_Enter CONSTANCE._
CON. Well! will Melfort come?
FLE. He has written to me to say he cannot.