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My ears are less quick; I hear nothing; and if you are come out to listen for the arrival of her whom you expect, you will have the cool air about you long enough, I believe.

What! think you she will not come?

I am almost certain she will not.

Thou little knowest how the proud may be subdued by distress.

If I have any true knowledge of Arden, with all his weakness and folly, he will not submit to be saved by such base means as you propose.

Pshaw, pshaw! thou art too simple; contemptibly simple. The love of life works powerfully in stronger minds than his. Besides, the lady may be willing to save him without his consent. She, depend upon it, will be here by and by.

You are very sanguine.

Not unreasonably so: she will be here ere