Chapter 48

Master Clarenbach's house.

MASTER CLARENBACH, SOPHIA.

_Clar._ Step in here, child! here you are, if not rich, at least safe. You have now done your duty as a daughter. Now recommend the perverse man to heaven, and let things take their course.

_Soph._ Can I be easy with that? It is lamentable, that I have no other means left.

_Clar._ My son has acted as a man of honour ought. He would not leave me till I had given him my word, neither to act nor to speak against your father.

_Soph._ You have given it.

_Clar._ And will keep it.

_Soph._ I will acknowledge it with filial affection, with the same care and attention as if I were your own daughter.

_Clar._ Jack has obtained you by noble means, dear daughter; that is a good and laudable commencement of the marriage-state.