Cadwell: (calling again from his room) Come on then, hey! Bendish: Coming! Yells like a devil. Don't people say he has a lot of business. (Exit Jenny to Laura's apartment) (Cadwell enters) Cadwell: Will you ever come? Bendish: I'm here. Cadwell: What time is it? Bendish: Doesn't matter. Cadwell: Scoundrel! Hasn't anyone come to ask for me? Bendish: Arabella's valet is waiting for you to wake up. Cadwell: Selina hasn't sent around? Bendish: I protect you from gossip. (drawing a letter and a watch from his jacket and presenting them to Cadwell) Here's a letter and a watch Selina sent you. Her lackey is going to come for a reply. Cadwell: Just put them there. Bendish: Aren't you going to read her letter? Cadwell: No. I know everything that will be in it. Bendish: (hearing a noise) Someone's knocking on the door. Shall I open it? Cadwell: See who it is! (Bendish goes to open) Ah, it's from Arabella. (Enter Arabella's Lackey) Lackey: (giving a clasp to Cadwell) Yes, sir. Here is what madam sends you. Will you send a reply? Cadwell: A reply? No. Lackey: Will you come to her, sir? Cadwell: No. Lackey: Tomorrow perhaps, sir? Cadwell: Er--one of these days, certainly. (to Bendish) Hey, Bendish--haven't you got a watch? (Bendish gives Cadwell the watch which Cadwell in turn presents to the lackey) Take this to your mistress. (to Bendish) Well now--finish dressing me. (The Lackey bows and exits) Bendish: And what will Selina say when she doesn't see her watch anymore? Cadwell: Didn't I tell you to dress me? Bendish: Eh! You don't intend to go out? Cadwell: I don't know what I will do. I'd like to spend the day here. No, I have to go out. (Thinking he hears a noise) Someone's knocking. Another lackey, I'll bet. Bendish: No, sir, nobody's knocking.-- Admit that it's a tiresome distinction to be a pretty fellow and not to be able to take a step without being run after by half the world. These are the perils one faces when one is made like you. Cadwell: There are times when I wish not to be as I am--when I'd give anything in the world to be like you. Bendish: I believe it. Cadwell: Perhaps you have some secret to make me disliked? Bendish: I do, sir. And it's very easy. You have only to continue to live the way you live and I guarantee you the hate and scorn of all mankind. (hearing knocking) They're knocking. Cadwell: Open. Bendish: (after having opened the door) It's from Selina. (Enter Selina's Lackey) Lackey: Sir, I've brought a letter and a watch. Cadwell: I know what it is. Here give her this. (giving the Lackey the clasp) (Exit Lackey) Bendish: He pipes with the flute and tunes with the drum. Cadwell: You seem quite astonished?