SCENE IX.

MYSIS, DAVUS, (_overjoyed, offers to take her hand._)

_Mysis._ Don’t touch me, you villain: if I don’t tell my mistress all this, may I be――

_Davus._ Hey-day! you silly wench: You don’t know what we have just done.

_Mysis._ How should I?

_Davus._ [184]That was the bride’s father: I wished him to know all this; and there was no other way to acquaint him with it.

_Mysis._ You should have given me notice then.

_Davus._ [185]Do you think a thing of this sort can be done as well by premeditating and studying, as by acting according to the natural impulse of the moment.