Lady _Town._ You will call on me at Lady _Revel_'s? Lady _Grace._ Certainly. Lady _Town._ But I am so afraid it will break into your scheme, my dear! Lady _Grace._ When it does, I will----soberly break from you. Lady _Town._ Why then 'till we meet again, dear sister, I wish you all tolerable happiness. [_Exit Lady ~Town~._ Lady _Grace._ There she goes--dash! into her stream of pleasures! poor woman! she is really a fine creature! and sometimes infinitely agreeable! nay, take her out of the madness of this town, rational in her notions, and easy to live with: but she is so borne down by this torrent of vanity in vogue, she thinks every hour of her life is lost that she does not lead at the head of it. What it will end in, I tremble to imagine----Ha! my brother, and _Manly_ with him! I guess what they have been talking of----I shall hear it in my turn, I suppose, but it won't become me to be inquisitive. [_Exit Lady ~Grace~._ _Enter Lord ~Townly~ and ~Manly~._ Lord _Town._ I did not think my Lady _Wronghead_ had such a notable brain: tho' I can't say she was so very wise, in trusting this silly girl you call _Myrtilla_, with the secret. _Man._ No, my Lord, you mistake me, had the girl been in the secret, perhaps I had never come at it myself. Lord _Town._ Why I thought you said the girl writ this letter, to you, and that my Lady _Wronghead_ sent it inclos'd to my sister? _Man._ If you please to give me leave, my Lord----the fact is thus.--This inclos'd letter to Lady _Grace_ was a real original one, written by this girl, to the Count we have been talking of: the Count drops it, and my Lady _Wronghead_ finds it: then only changing the cover, she seals it up as a letter of business, just written by herself, to me: and pretending to be in a hurry, gets this innocent girl to write the direction, for her. Lord _Town._ Oh! then the girl did not know she was superscribing a billet-doux of her own to you? _Man._ No, my Lord; for when I first question'd her about the direction, she own'd it immediately: but when I shew'd her that the letter to the Count was within it, and told her how it came into my hands, the poor creature was amazed and thought herself betray'd both by the Count and my Lady----in short, upon this discovery the girl and I grew so gracious, that she has let me into some transactions, in my Lady _Wronghead_'s family, which, with my having a careful eye over them, may prevent the ruin of it. Lord _Town._ You are very generous to be so solicitous for a Lady that has given you so much uneasiness. _Man._ But I will be most unmercifully reveng'd of her: for I will do her the greatest friendship in the world----against her will. Lord _Town._ What an uncommon philosophy art thou master of? to make even thy malice a virtue?