(Enter Hastings and Flavella)
Hastings
Chance has led you here and saved me the trouble of finding you.
Urania
Chance has favored us equally, for I have been saved the trouble of
hunting you up.
Hastings
Always preoccupied? Aren't you yet undeceived? Don't you-- Don't you
realize that your passion is a chimera and a hallucination? Give it
up--believe me. You won't profit by crossing my plans. Show yourself
to be wise.
Urania
As usual, you babble without rhyme or reason. But, you know what I
want to talk about. Here is McNaughten's written promise to marry me;
given as a mark of his affection and in his own handwriting.
(Flavella flinches)
Hastings
Where is your credulity leading you, sis?
Urania
He wrote me, I tell you. I've been swindled. Listen, niece--
Flavella
You may be quite sure I'm listening very carefully, auntie.
Urania
Without exaggeration, you are very pleasant to try to steal a heart
like his from me, and to appropriate my treasure so boldly. Such an
action is stupid and not honest.
Flavella
Who could possibly ravish a conquest from your arms? Your eyes
guarantee that when one has been struck by your manifold attraction,
they will never change. They are charming eyes which steal men from
others.
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