Part 22 (1/2)

Slice: If I find him, I will be back here in no time.

(Exit Slice)

Worthy: Madam, Cadwell will not be so faithful as you imagine.

Laura: (to Bendish) Bendish, do you think he will come?

Bendish: Madam, I don't know anything about it. But if in my life, I get lucky--

Jenny: (interrupting him) Things don't always succeed.

Bendish: Experience makes me doubt a bit. But at least I know the rap that rapped me so distinctly. If it's this little rapper, she's devilishly strong.

Jenny: It was me. I ought to have done it to you a long time ago.

Bendish: I thank you for your favors.

Arabella: (to Laura) If Cadwell's going to come we won't be long in knowing. The Park isn't far from here.

Selina: I will be very irritated not to see the end of this adventure, although I preferred him to a person who wasn't very disagreeable.

Laura: (to Jenny) Jenny, see if someone isn't coming down there.

Bendish: I will go to hurry him if you wish, madam.

Worthy: (to Laura) Madam, don't let him leave, if you please.

Laura: (to Jenny) Someone's coming now.

(Jenny goes to the door)

Bendish: (aside) I see that he won't be here too soon.

Jenny: (returning) Madam, (to Laura) our man sent me to tell you he will be here in a moment. He's taking several detours so he cannot judge the distance.

Laura: Come on, it's over. I will be absolutely cured, and I think I will never speak to him again in my life.

Selina: Although you'd like a confession from me, know that I have more fort.i.tude than you and that I have forgotten him more easily than I came to love him.

Arabella: As for me, I haven't got such a strong soul.

Selina: (to Olivia) But you, madam, he loves you.

Olivia: Like the others.

Bendish: I a.s.sure you that you are the only woman in the world of whom I never heard him say a bad thing.

Laura: And of me, Bendish?

Bendish: Oh, for you, he loves you, madam.