MISS FLYN
I shall here answer no questions.

JUSTICE
You must explain how you came by the jewels, madam.

MISS FLYN (Aside.) Now confidence assist me!——­A gentleman in the neighbourhood will answer for me——­

JUSTICE
His name——­

MISS FLYN
Pendulous——­

JUSTICE
That lives in the next street?

MISS FLYN
The same——­now I have him sure.

JUSTICE
Let him be sent for.  I believe the gentleman to be respectable, and will
accept his security.

FLINT
Why do I waste my time, where I have no business?  None—­I have none any
more in the world—­none.

Enter Pendulous.

PENDULOUS
What is the meaning of this extraordinary summons?—­Maria here?

FLINT
Know you any thing of my daughter, Sir?

PENDULOUS Sir, I neither know her nor yourself, nor why I am brought hither; but for this lady, if you have any thing against her, I will answer it with my life and fortunes.

JUSTICE
Make out the bail-bond.

OFFICER (Surveying Pendulous.) Please, your worship, before you take that gentleman’s bond, may I have leave to put in a word?

PENDULOUS
(Agitated.) I guess what is coming.

OFFICER
I have seen that gentleman hold up his hand at a criminal bar.

JUSTICE
Ha!

MISS FLYN
(Aside.) Better and better.

OFFICER
My eyes cannot deceive me.  His lips quivered about, while he was being
tried, just as they do now.  His name is not Pendulous.

MISS FLYN
Excellent!

OFFICER
He pleaded to the name of Thomson at York assizes.

JUSTICE
Can this be true?

MISS FLYN
I could kiss the fellow!

OFFICER
He was had up for a footpad.

MISS FLYN
A dainty fellow!

PENDULOUS
My iniquitous fate pursues me everywhere.

JUSTICE
You confess, then.

PENDULOUS
I am steeped in infamy.

MISS FLYN
I am as deep in the mire as yourself.

PENDULOUS
My reproach can never be washed out.

MISS FLYN
Nor mine.

PENDULOUS
I am doomed to everlasting shame.

MISS FLYN
We are both in a predicament.

JUSTICE
I am in a maze where all this will end.

MISS FLYN
But here comes one who, if I mistake not, will guide us out of all our
difficulties.

Enter Marian and Davenport.

MARIAN
(Kneeling.) My dear father!

FLINT
Do I dream?

MARIAN
I am your Marian.

JUSTICE
Wonders thicken!

FLINT
The casket—­

MISS FLYN
Let me clear up the rest.

FLINT
The casket—­

MISS FLYN
Was inadvertently in your daughter’s hand, when, by an artifice of her
maid Lucy,—­set on, as she confesses, by this gentleman here,—­