_Aur._ Dear Madam, will you suffer me to speak a few words----[_Aside to Lady_ Tremor. _Sir Luke._ Aye; leave her and her relation together, and let us take a turn in the garden with Mr. Twineall.--I'm afraid his Lordship will be back before we have drawn him to say more on the subject, for which he will be arrested. _Lady._ You are right. _Sir Luke._ Mr. Twineall, will you walk this way?--That young lady and gentleman wish to have a little conversation. _Twi._ O, certainly, Sir Luke, by all means. [_Exeunt Sir_ Luke _and Lady_. [_To_ Elvirus.] I am extremely sorry, Sir, you kept your bed during the voyage: I shou'd else have been most prodigiously happy in such good company. [_Exit._ _Aur._ Why are you thus agitated? It was wrong to be so impetuous--but such regret as this---- _Elv._ Hear the secret I refused before--my father is a prisoner for life. _Aur._ Oh, heavens! then Mr. Haswell was the only man---- _Elv._ And he had promised me--promised me, with benevolence, his patronage--but the disguise he wore when I first saw him, led me to mistake him now--made me expose my falsehood, my infamy, and treat his honour'd person with abuse. _Aur._ Aye; let his virtues make you thus repent; but let them also make you hope forgiveness. _Elv._ Nay, he is just, as well as compassionate--and for detected falsehood---- _Aur._ You make me tremble. _Elv._ Yet he shall hear my story--I'll follow him, and obtain his pity, if not his pardon. _Aur._ Nay, supplicate for that too--and you need not blush, or feel yourself degraded, to _kneel_ to HIM, for he wou'd scorn the pride that triumphs over the humbled. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II. _The Garden._ _Enter Sir_ Luke, Twineall, _and Lady_ Tremor. _Twi._ Why, really, Sir Luke, as my Lord has given you charge to sound my principles, I must own they are just such as I delivered to him. _Sir Luke._ Well, Mr. Twineall, I only wish you to be a little more clear--we will suppose the present Sultan no impostor--yet what pretensions do you think the _other_ family---- _Twi._ That I'll make clear to you at once--or if my reasons are _not_ very clear, they are at least very _positive_, and that you know is the same thing.--This family--no--that family--the family that reigned before this--this came after that--they came before. Now every one agrees that this family was always--so and so--[_whispering._]--and that the other was always--so and so--[_whispering._]--in short, every body knows that one of them had always a very suspicious--you know what---- _Sir Luke._ No, I don't.