HUMPHRY (pushing him off the Stage by the shoulders).
Provoking fool! Run and open the back gate directly, or I'll make thee bow lower than thou hast a mind to.—He will be here in a few minutes.
[Exeunt severally.
SCENE III.
A small Court or Garden behindArden's House.
EnterMadaline from the house.
MADALINE (looking about).
I thought Edmond would have been here before me. What can make the child so still and inert at such a moment as this. My aunt need not have urged me to remain here to comfort him, I trow: he has kept himself out of the way of every body.
EnterHumphry.
MADALINE.
Come near me, good Humphry; there is a thing I should have asked at thee sooner: did your Master know nothing of Robinair's death, till after he came into the Court?
