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amination at dinner, that I began to dread detection.
You need not fear him now, for he has taken his coffee below, and is retired to his room for the rest of the evening.
Did my wife give him a hint to retire?
No, Sir? Why should she?
O nothing!—No reason at all. I only thought she might have done so. He is tiresome enough sometimes, and—O no, no reason at all.
I think he has got some stones in his pocket, and is going to write something about his jolligy.
He said that himself, did he?—Ha! Here they come.
I think you had better retire till they ring.
[Exeunt Charville and Dickenson, and enter Mrs. Charville and Mary, followed by Sir Robert Freemantle.
But, Sir Robert, you have never said a word to me the whole day of the letter I sent to your
