_Flip._ And then I know him again, he'd see her drown'd before he'd give her a farthing; but that's a help to your affair, you know. _Mon._ 'Tis so, indeed. _Flip._ Ah----well, I'll say nothing; but if she had none of these things to fret her---- _Mon._ Why really, _Flippanta_---- _Flip._ I know what you are going to say now; you are going to offer your service, but 'twon't do; you have a mind to play the gallant now, but it must not be; you want to be shewing your liberality, but 'twon't be allowed; you'll be pressing me to offer it, and she'll be in a rage. We shall have the Devil to do. _Mon._ You mistake me, _Flippanta_, I was only going to say---- _Flip._ Ay, I know what you were going to say well enough; but I tell you it will never do so. If one cou'd find out some way now----ay----let me see---- _Mon._ Indeed I hope---- _Flip._ Pray be quiet----no----but I'm thinking----hum----she'll smoke that tho'----let us consider--If one you'd find a way to----'Tis the nicest point in the world to bring about, she'll never touch it, if she knows from whence it comes. _Mon._ Shall I try if I can reason her husband out of twenty pounds, to make her easy the rest of her life? _Flip._ Twenty pounds, man?----why you shall see her set that upon a card. O----she has a great soul.----Besides, if her husband should oblige her, it might, in time, take off her aversion to him, and by consequence, her inclination to you. No, no, it must never come that way. _Mon._ What shall we do then? _Flip._ Hold still----I have it. I'll tell you what you shall do. _Mon._ Ay. _Flip._ You shall make her a restitution of two hundred pounds. _Mon._ Ha! Restitution! _Flip._ Yes, yes, 'tis the luckiest thought in the world; Madam often plays, you know, and folks who do so, meet now and then with sharpers. Now you shall be a sharper. _Mon._ A sharper! _Flip._ Ay, ay, a sharper; and having cheated her of two hundred pounds, shall be troubled in mind, and send it her back again. You comprehend me? _Mon._ Yes, I comprehend, but a----won't she suspect if it be so much? _Flip._ No, no, the more the better. _Mon._ Two hundred pounds! _Flip._ Yes, two hundred pounds----Or let me see----so even a sum may look a little suspicious----ay----let it be two hundred and thirty; that odd thirty will make it look so natural, the devil won't find it out. _Mon._ Ha! _Flip._ Pounds, too, look I don't know how; guineas I fancy were better----ay, guineas, it shall be guineas. You are of that mind, are you not? _Mon._ Um----a guinea, you know, _Flippanta_, is-- _Flip._ A thousand times genteeler, you are certainly in the right on't; it shall be as you say, two hundred and thirty guineas. _Mon._ Ho----well, if it must be guineas, let's see, two hundred guineas.