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senses? CHREM. (_apart._) Nay, prithee, do take care not to injure your kinswoman. DEM. (_apart._) She is not. CHREM. (_apart._) Don't deny it; her father went by another name; that was the cause of your mistake. DEM. (_apart._) Did she not know who was her father? CHREM. (_apart._) She did. DEM. (_apart._) Why did she call him by another {name}? CHREM. (_apart, frowning._) Will you never yield to me, nor understand {what I mean}? DEM. (_apart._) If you don't tell me of any thing---- CHREM. (_impatiently._) Do you persist? NAUS. I wonder what {all} this can be. DEM. For my part, upon my faith, I don't know. CHREM. (_whispering to him._) Would you like to know? Then, so may Jupiter preserve me, not a person is there more nearly related to her than are you and I. DEM. (_starting._) Ye Gods, by our trust in you! let's away to her; I wish for all of us, one way or other, to be sure about this (_going_). CHREM. (_stopping him._) Ah! DEM. What's the matter? CHREM. That you should put so little confidence in me! DEM. Do you wish me to believe you? Do you wish me to consider this as quite certain? Very well, be it so. Well, what's to be done with our friend's[79] daughter? CHREM. She'll do well enough. DEM. Are we to drop her, then? CHREM. Why not? DEM. The other one to stop? CHREM. Just so. DEM. You may go then, Nausistrata. NAUS. I' faith, I think it better for all that she should remain here as it is, than as you {first} intended; for she seemed to me a very genteel person when I saw her. (_Goes into her house._) SCENE V. _DEMIPHO and CHREMES._ DEM. What is the meaning of all this? CHREM. (_looking at the door of his house._) Has she shut the door yet? DEM. Now {she has}. CHREM. O Jupiter! the Gods do befriend us; I have found that it is my daughter married to your son. DEM. Ha! How can that possibly be? CHREM. This spot is not exactly suited for me to tell it {you}. DEM. Well then, step in-doors. CHREM. Hark you, I don't wish our sons even to come to know of this. (_They go into DEMIPHO'S house._) SCENE VI. _Enter ANTIPHO._ ANT. I'm glad that, however my own affairs go, my brother has succeeded in his wishes. How wise it is to cherish desires of that nature in the mind, that when things run counter, you may easily find a cure {for them}! He has both got the money, {and} released himself from care; I, by no method, can extrica
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