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ENTHUSIASM: A COMEDY.

LADY SHREWDLY.

Go to all the resorts of low foreigners about town, and find out, if possible, the German juggler called Manhaunslet.

CLERMONT.

The father of the boy Lady Worrymore admires so much?

LADY SHREWDLY.

The same.

CLERMONT.

What can she possibly have to do with such a man as that?

LADY SHREWDLY.

What very few indeed would think of doing.

CLERMONT.

How so?—I beg pardon for questioning so closely.

LADY SHREWDLY.

Indeed, you need not: it will bear to be questioned. She is seeking to strip herself of fortune and all its advantages, for the sake of justice and affection.

CLERMONT.

Of justice and affection?

LADY SHREWDLY.

In short, she has taken it into her head, from a strong resemblance, that that boy is the son of