_D._ (_aside_). Her joy! no doubt! Here’s a fine father! What doth he wish? Ah, doubly have I been fooled. How plain ’tis now to see. The only one I have never once suspected; the only one It could have been. And Frederick must have told her My love of him. All I would have kept secret And thought was hid, hath been as open as day: And what I sought to learn hath been kept from me By them I trusted to discover it. Tristram, no doubt, whom I supposed a fool, 2940 Hath merely played with me. Thank heaven they are gone. I’ll never see him again. Befooled: befooled. _G._ They have been befriended by the Duke of Milan. _D._ The Duke of Milan too! _G._ It was his letter I spake of. Frederick is, he tells me there, His old school-friend; he begs my pardon for him, Will fête the bride and bridegroom in his palace, And have the Archbishop marry them. ’Tis thither They are fled. _D._ Then all this is a plot of the Duke’s! _G._ (_aside_). I dare not tell her more. 2950 _D._ Who brought the letter? _G._ I wish my dear girl joy. She has chosen well. _D._ Who brought the letter? _G._ Tristram gave it me. _D._ (_half-aside_). How came he by it? _Re-enter Tristram._ _T._ My lady! I have something now. _D._ Tristram, I bade you leave the court: how dare you Appear before me again? Silence, I say. I know your news: you have served Your master with such lying skill, I wonder He did not take you and your Flora with him: There was not room enough perhaps in the coach For two such couples. _T._ How, if you please, my lady, 2960 Are Flora and I two couples? _D._ Silence. Tell me How you get letters from the Duke of Milan. _T._ How I get letters from the Duke of Milan? _D._ There’s nothing now to hide, so tell the truth. _T._ I swear, my lady, that I know no more Of the Duke of Milan than a babe unborn. Your ladyship accused me once before Of having been at Milan, when ’twas plain That I had not gone, and never wished to go. Knowing my lady’s strong impartiality, 2970 I should not venture. _D._ This will not do. _Enter Ricardo._ (_Gregory beckons Tristram aside, and during Diana’s first speech whispers him, and Gregory and Tristram go out._) _RICARDO._ My lady. The culprit is discovered.