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in her own room, and it has gone to my heart to hear it. I'd give the best suit I ever had to my back, that my young master were returned.

MADALINE.

Humphry is a long time gone.

ROBERT.

An hour and twenty minutes.

MADALINE.

Only an hour and twenty minutes! But you have reckoned the time with a more composed mind than we have done: perhaps you may be right.

ROBERT.

My watch has reckoned it, Madam, which is more composed than any of us.

MADALINE.

Would he were returned!

ROBERT.

Shall I go after him?

MADALINE.

That would do no good. Open the street door, and listen if there be any footsteps coming. (Robert opens the door and listens.) Do you hear any thing?

ROBERT.

Yes, I do hear footsteps.