_Aur._ Go into this apartment; I'll follow you--there we may be safe--and do not hide the smallest circumstance which I may have to apprehend. [Elvirus _exit at a door_. _Sir Luke._ [_Without._] Abominable! provoking! impertinent! not to be borne! _Aur._ [_Listening._] Thank Heaven, Sir Luke is so perplexed with some affairs of his own, he may not think of mine.--[_Exit to_ Elvirus. _Enter Sir_ Luke, _followed by Lady_ Tremor. _Sir Luke._ I am out of all patience--and all temper--did you ever hear of such a compleat impertinent coxcomb? Talk, talk, talk, continually! and referring to me on all occasions! "Such a man was a brave General--another a great Admiral," and then he must tell a long story about a siege, and ask me if it did not make my bosom glow! _Lady._ It had not that effect upon your face, for you were as white as ashes. _Sir Luke._ Aye, you did not see yourself, while he was talking of grandfathers and great grandfathers--if you had-- _Lady._ I was not white, I protest. _Sir Luke._ No--but you were as red as scarlet. _Lady._ And you ought to have resented the insult, if you saw me affected by it--Oh! some men wou'd have given him such a dressing-- _Sir Luke._ Yes, my dear, if your uncle the frisseur had been alive, he wou'd have given him a dressing, I dare say. _Lady._ Sir Luke, none of your impertinence; you know I can't nor won't bear it--neither will I wait for Lord Flint's resentment on Mr. Twineall--No, I desire you will tell him to quit this roof immediately. _Sir Luke._ No, my dear--no, no--you must excuse me--I can't think of quarrelling with a gentleman in my own house. _Lady._ Was it your own house to day at dinner when he insulted us? and would quarrel then? _Sir Luke._ No--that was a friend's house--and I make it a rule never to quarrel in my own house--a friend's house--in a tavern--or in the streets. _Lady._ Well, then, I would quarrel in my own house--a friend's house--a tavern--or in the streets--if any one offended _me_. _Sir Luke._ O, my dear, I have no doubt of it--no doubt, in the least. _Lady._ But, at present, it shall be in my own house,--and I will tell the gentleman to quit it immediately. _Sir Luke._ Very well, my dear--pray do. _Lady._ I suppose, however, I may tell him I have your authority to bid him go? _Sir Luke._ Tell him I have no authority--none in the world over you--but that you will do as you like. _Lady._ I can't tell him so--he won't believe it. _Sir Luke._ Why not? you often tell me so, and _make_ me believe it too. _Lady._ Here the gentleman comes--go away for a moment. _Sir Luke._ With all my heart, my dear. [_Going in a hurry._ _Lady._ I'll give him a few hints, that he must either change his mode of behaviour, or leave us. _Sir Luke._ That's right--but don't be too warm--or if he should be very impertinent, or insolent--(I hear Aurelia's voice in the next room) call _her_, and I dare say she'll come and take your part. [_Exit Sir_ Luke.