_Ph._ I see you must. _Pam._ How can I? _Ph._ What do you say if I can make your father Give Gorgo fifty pounds for being so much unlike The lady he thinks her to be? _Pam._ Impossible. _Ph._ Nay, ’tis not. _Pam._ Well, how? _Ph._ Why, when your father scolds, turn round upon him; Say you knew all along exactly what he would think, And brought the lady here in the hope he’d see his way To helping old Menedemus out of his scrape. _Pam._ And then? _Ph._ Tell him to offer Gorgo forty or fifty pounds, If she will renounce her claim on Clinia. _Pam._ Fifty pounds! 701 My father give fifty pounds! _Ph._ Why, don’t you wish he would? _Pam._ And what’s the use of wishing? _Ph._ Try him. _Pam._ I think you’re mad. _Ph._ Try it; I’ll help you out. See here he comes. _Re-enter Chremes._ _Chr._ Good heavens! Pamphilus, here’s a sample of manners and good breeding. How could you ever have thought of bringing that woman here? _Pam._ You said you wanted to see her: I thought you wished her to come. _Chr._ When, sir, I blamed your friend, you said I could not judge, Not having seen the lady. Did I not rightly judge? _Ph._ (_aside_). Tell him you knew. Don’t stand there mum. _Chr._ I am quite ashamed. 710 _Pam._ You see then what she is like? _Chr._ Of course I see too well. _Pam._ I knew, sir, all along exactly what you would think. _Ph._ (_aside_). That’s right. _Chr._ And yet you brought her? _Pam._ You blame me, sir, too soon: I have put within your reach the very thing you wished. _Chr._ How so? _Pam._ I thought you wished to help Menedemus out. _Chr._ I do. _Pam._ Why then, ’tis easy. _Ph._ (_aside_). Bravo! _Chr._ What do you mean? _Pam._ Why, sir, we are all agreed the match would never do; Then why in the world not put a stopper on it at once? _Chr._ I don’t quite see your drift. _Pam._ Why, forty or fifty pound Would settle the matter. _Chr._ How? _Pam._ Just make the offer and see. _Chr._ What offer? _Ph._ O, I see. _Chr._ I don’t see. _Ph._ Capital! 721 _Chr._ I’m very dull, no doubt. _Ph._ If ’twas my place to speak.... _Chr._ I don’t forbid you, sir. _Ph._ Then, sir, I praise the scheme.