about the other one that's called his relative?

SOPH. Why, this is she.

CHREM. What is it you say?

SOPH. It was done on purpose, in order that her lover might be enabled
to marry her without a portion.

CHREM. Ye Gods, by our trust in you! How often do those things come
about through accident, which you couldn't dare to hope for? On my
return, I have found my daughter matched with the very person I
wished, and just as I wanted; a thing that we were both using our
endeavors, with the greatest earnestness, to bring about. Without any
very great management on our part, by her own management, she has by
herself brought this about.

SOPH. Now consider what's to be done. The young man's father has
returned, and they say that he bears this with feelings highly
offended.

CHREM. There's no danger {of that}. But, by Gods and men, do take care
that no one comes to know that she's my daughter.

SOPH. No one shall know {it} from me.

CHREM. Follow me; in-doors we'll hear the rest. (_He goes into
DEMIPHO'S house, followed by SOPHRONA._)

ACT THE FOURTH.

SCENE I.

_Enter DEMIPHO and GETA._

DEM. 'Tis caused by our own fault, that it is advantageous to be
dishonest; while we wish ourselves to be styled very honest and
generous. "So run away as {not to run} beyond the house,"[75] as the
saying is. Was it not enough to receive an injury from him, but money
must be voluntarily offered him as well, that he may have something on
which to subsist while he plans some other {piece} of roguery?

GETA. Most clearly so.

DEM. They now get rewarded for it, who confound right with wrong.

GETA. Most undoubtedly.

DEM. How very foolishly, in fact, we have managed the affair with him!

GETA. If by these means we can only manage for him to marry her.

DEM. Is that, then, a matter of doubt?

GETA. I' faith, judging from what the fellow is, I don't know whether
he mightn't change his mind.

DEM. How! change it indeed?

GETA. I don't know: but "if perhaps," I say.

DEM. I'll do as my brother advised me, bring hither his wife, to talk
with her. Do you, Geta, go before; tell her that Nausistrata is about
to visit her. (_DEMIPHO goes into the house of CHREMES._)

SCENE II.

_GETA, alone._

GETA. The money's been got for Phaedria; it's all hushed about the
lawsuit; due care has been taken that she's not to leave for the
present. What next, then? What's to be done? You are still sticking in
the mud. You ar