et, whom I see coming, can witness this to be true.

_Enter Cutlet, in haste._

CUTLET
Aye, poor lamb! poor lamb! I can witness. I have run in such a haste,
hearing how affairs stood, that I have left my shambles without a
protector. If your worship had seen how she cried _(pointing to
Marian),_ and trembled, and insisted upon being brought to her father.
Mr. Davenport here could not stay her.

FLINT
I can forbear no longer. Marian, will you play once again, to please
your old father?

MARIAN
I have a good mind to make you buy me a new grand piano for your naughty
suspicions of me.

DAVENPORT
What is to become of me?

FLINT
I will do more than that. The poor lady shall have her jewels again.

MARIAN
Shall she?

FLINT
Upon reasonable terms _(smiling)._ And now, I suppose, the court may
adjourn.

DAVENPORT
Marian!

FLINT
I guess what is passing in your mind, Mr. Davenport; but you have
behaved upon the whole so like a man of honour, that it will give me
pleasure, if you will visit at my house for the future; but _(smiling)_
not clandestinely, Marian.

MARIAN
Hush, father.

FLINT
I own I had prejudices against gentry. But I have met with so much
candour and kindness among my betters this day--from this gentleman in
particular--_(turning to the Justice)_--that I begin to think of
leaving off business, and setting up for a gentleman myself.

JUSTICE
You have the feelings of one.

FLINT
Marian will not object to it.

JUSTICE
But _(turning to Miss Flyn)_ what motive could induce this lady to take
so much disgrace upon herself, when a word's explanation might have
relieved her?

MISS FLYN
This gentleman _(turning to Pendulous)_ can explain.

PENDULOUS
The devil!

MISS FLYN
This gentleman, I repeat it, whose backwardness in concluding a long and
honourable suit from a mistaken delicacy--

PENDULOUS
How!

MISS FLYN
Drove me upon the expedient of involving myself in the same disagreeable
embarrassments with himself, in the hope that a more perfect sympathy
might subsist between us for the future.

PENDULOUS
I see it--I see it all.

JUSTICE
(_To Pendulous._) You were then tried at York?

PENDULOUS
I was--CAST--

JUSTICE
Condemned--

PENDULOUS
EXECUTED.

JUSTICE
How?

PENDULOUS
CUT DOWN and CAME TO LIFE AGAIN. False delicacy, adieu! The true sort,
which this lady has manifested--by an expedient which at first sight
might seem a little unpromising, has cured me of the oth