So much for supper. And now to see that our beds are aired, and
properly taken care of.

HARDCASTLE. I entreat you'll leave that to me. You shall not stir a
step.

MARLOW. Leave that to you! I protest, sir, you must excuse me, I
always look to these things myself.

HARDCASTLE. I must insist, sir, you'll make yourself easy on that
head.

MARLOW. You see I'm resolved on it. (Aside.) A very troublesome
fellow this, as I ever met with.

HARDCASTLE. Well, sir, I'm resolved at least to attend you. (Aside.)
This may be modem modesty, but I never saw anything look so like
old-fashioned impudence. [Exeunt MARLOW and HARDCASTLE.]

HASTINGS. (Alone.) So I find this fellow's civilities begin to grow
troublesome. But who can be angry at those assiduities which are meant
to please him? Ha! what do I see? Miss Neville, by all that's happy!


Enter MISS NEVILLE.


MISS NEVILLE. My dear Hastings! To what unexpected good fortune, to
what accident, am I to ascribe this happy meeting?