_Jud._ Well, you are a lucky man! Mrs Brainsick is fool enough to believe you wholly innocent; and that the adventure of the garden-house, last night, was only a vision of Mrs Saintly's. _Wood._ I knew, if I could once speak with her, all would be set right immediately; for, had I been there, look you-- _Jud._ As you were, most certainly. _Wood._ Limberham must have found me out; that _fe-fa-fum_ of a keeper would have smelt the blood of a cuckold-maker: They say, he was peeping and butting about in every cranny. _Jud._ But one. You must excuse my unbelief, though Mrs Brainsick is better satisfied. She and her husband, you know, went out this morning to the New Exchange: There she has given him the slip; and pretending to call at her tailor's to try her stays for a new gown-- _Wood._ I understand thee;--she fetched me a short turn, like a hare before her muse, and will immediately run hither to covert? _Jud._ Yes; but because your chamber will be least suspicious, she appoints to meet you there; that, if her husband should come back, he may think her still abroad, and you may have time-- _Wood._ To take in the horn-work. It happens as I wish; for Mrs Tricksy, and her keeper, are gone out with father Aldo, to complete her settlement; my landlady is safe at her morning exercise with my man Gervase, and her daughter not stirring: the house is our own, and iniquity may walk bare-faced. _Jud._ And, to make all sure, I am ordered to be from home. When I come back again, I shall knock at your door, with, _Speak, brother, speak;_ [_Singing._ _Is the deed done?_ _Wood._ _Long ago, long ago;_--and then we come panting out together. Oh, I am ravished with the imagination on't! _Jud._ Well, I must retire; good-morrow to you, sir. [_Exit._ _Wood._ Now do I humbly conceive, that this mistress in matrimony will give me more pleasure than the former; for your coupled spaniels, when they are once let loose, are afterwards the highest rangers. _Enter Mrs_ BRAINSICK, _running._ _Mrs Brain._ Oh dear Mr Woodall, what shall I do? _Wood._ Recover breath, and I'll instruct you in the next chamber. _Mrs Brain._ But my husband follows me at heels. _Wood._ Has he seen you? _Mrs Brain._ I hope not: I thought I had left him sure enough at the Exchange; but, looking behind me, as I entered into the house, I saw him walking a round rate this way. _Wood._ Since he has not seen you, there is no danger; you need but step into my chamber, and there we will lock ourselves up, and transform him in a twinkling. _Mrs Brain._ I had rather have got into my own; but Judith is gone out with the key, I doubt. _Wood._ Yes, by your appointment. But so much the better; for when the cuckold finds no company, he will certainly go a sauntering again. _Mrs Brain._ Make haste, then.