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went round another way. (Giving him a key.) But, perhaps, it might have opened your strong box. I should have returned it to you sooner, had I not learned from your locksmith, that he had already changed the lock of that most secret repository.

The very key, I must, with confusion, acknowledge. Is it possible that I should have taken the wrong key from that corner, and that having given a key to you should have entirely escaped my memory?

Every thing is possible, when the imagination of a suspicious man is concerned.

I am beaten to the ground! I am lower in my own opinion than my worst enemy would have placed me, or even (pointing to ) this good-natured friend.—Dear Latitia, I am sensible of my infirmity; I am incapable of being a good husband to any woman; and though it has long been my ambition to be yours, I remit your engagement and restore you to your liberty.

No, no, no! she is too generous to desert you in your hour of humiliation.