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PS undefined (But does your mother know you're— I mean, is she aware of an engagement?)

PS undefined (She is—and thus she welcomes her daughter-in-law! (kisses her).) PS undefined (She kisses just like other people! But the Lord Chancellor!) PS undefined (I forgot him! Mother, none can resist your fairy eloquence: you will go to him, and plead for us?) PS undefined ((Much agitated.) No, no, impossible!) PS undefined (But our happiness—our very lives, depend on our obtaining his consent!) PS undefined (Oh, madam, you cannot refuse to do this!)