_K._ (_to Dor._). Will she lie? _Dor._ (_to K._). Trust her. _D._ Now, Flora, answer. _Fl._ I am grieved my lady Should think I could deceive her. _D._ I did not ask If you deceived me. Heard you any noise? Did you see any man? _Fl._ Not I, my lady. _Dor._ (_aside to K._). Oh! oh! _D._ Were you asleep? _Fl._ I was asleep, my lady. _D._ Then stand aside. _Fl._ (_aside to K._). Did she believe me? _K._ (_to Fl._). Well! Thou’st got a brazen face! _Dor._ (_do._). Art thou not shamed? _D._ Marcela next. Didst thou hear anything? _MARCELA._ I heard no noise until my lady called. 2231 _D._ Thou wert asleep? _Mar._ I was asleep, my lady. _D._ ’Tis strange. Stand thou aside. _Dor._ (_aside_). Now then for Rose. _Mar._ (_do._). She really was asleep. _Fl._ (_do._). Then what shall come? _D._ Now, Rose, thou’rt left alone. Thy fellow-servants Have all denied the thing of which some one At least is guilty. Thee I did not suspect: But do not fear to tell the truth. Who was it? Tell me who is thy lover. No tittering there! Your levity makes you all accomplices, Ay, every one. _ROSE._ My lady, I have no lover. 2140 _D._ Tell me who this man was. _Rose._ I do not know. I heard no noise till Marcela awoke me. _D._ Didst thou awake her, Marcela? _Mar._ Yes, my lady. She was asleep. Rose always speaks the truth. It wasn’t Rose. _D._ You are all then in one plot: Or shame has made you lie. But never think To escape. I know the gentleman, and know He visits one of you: and which it is I’ll learn to-night: unless perhaps you’ll say 2250 He makes love to you all. _Mar._ Indeed, my lady, He is quite a proper man. _Dor._ And all his courtship Has been most regular. _D._ Come, come: confess. Who is it? _Fl._ It’s me, my lady. I must confess. _D._ Flora! _Fl._ Forgive me, I beg; for I abjure I never asked him: but, as I often tell him, He takes such liberties; which, as you know him, I need not tell your ladyship: and ’tis true We have been some time engaged. _D._ Engaged!—to you! Here’s a fine story! _R._ (_aside_). She has not said his name. 2259 _Fl._ Indeed, ’tis true, my lady; and I am sure My lady will pardon me. And since he hath told me How kind your ladyship hath been to him.... _D._ By heaven, I’ll have you whipped,—whipped! _Fl._ O, my lady! _D._ And speak of marriage, you impertinent hussy!