# Dramas (Baillie)/Enthusiasm/Act 3

ACT III.
SCENE I.—Colonel Frankland's House.
Enter Miss Frankland, with a scarf or shawl on her shoulders, as if going out, meeting Barbara, who enters by the opposite side.
BARBARA.
MISS FRANKLAND.
BARBARA.
MISS FRANKLAND.
BARBARA.
MISS FRANKLAND.
BARBARA.
MISS FRANKLAND.
BARBARA.
MISS FRANKLAND.
BARBARA.
MISS FRANKLAND (laughing).
For thy sake, then, I had better look out for a peer. However, since it must be, desire Sir John Crofton to come up stairs. [Exit Barbara.
It is an unpleasant moment, and I shrink from it, but the sooner it is over the better. Ay, and to settle the matter with a good grace for him, and without mortification to myself, it must be done quickly.
Enter Sir John Crofton.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND (shaking her head).
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND (as before).
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN (rising from his knees angrily).
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
SIR JOHN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
(Curtseying to Sir John, who retires tardily, and lays his hand on his heart as he disappears.)
MISS FRANKLAND (alone).
Enter Lady Shrewdly.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
LADY SHREWDLY.
MISS FRANKLAND.
[Exeunt arm in arm.
SCENE II.
Colonel Frankland's Apartment.
Enter Paterson with books, which he lays upon a table, and then wheels his master's easy chair to its proper place.
PATERSON (alone).
Enter Colonel Frankland, leaning on his stick.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (after seating himself, and looking at his hand).
PATERSON.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
LAURIE.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
Enter Servant.
SERVANT.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
SERVANT.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (agitated).
PATERSON.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
Enter Manhaunslet.
(To Manhaunslet.) You are a foreigner, I understand, and have brought a little boy with you to this country.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
PATERSON.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
PATERSON.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
LAURIE.
MANHAUNSLET.
LAURIE.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
What a romantic visionary track that dear girl has pursued! Call her in, Paterson; I'll see the poor child now with more composure.[Exit Paterson.
He is profitable to you, I suppose?
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
Enter Miss Frankland, leading Hugho, and followed by Mrs. Brown and Paterson.
MISS FRANKLAND (advancing to her uncle with Hugho).
COLONEL FRANKLAND (starting from his seat).
MISS FRANKLAND.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MISS FRANKLAND.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MISS FRANKLAND.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MISS FRANKLAND.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (catching Hugho in his arms and kissing him).
MISS FRANKLAND.
MRS. BROWN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (shaking his head).
I do not. (To Manhaunslet.) Was it on the child when you first found him?
MANHAUNSLET.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
MANHAUNSLET.
PATERSON.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (eagerly).
PATERSON.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (taking the paper from Paterson and reading).
"A lock of my father's hair." It is written in her own small hand, and this is the very lock which she cut from my head when——Oh, oh! and she loved me to the last, though she wounded me so grievously! (Embraces Hugho again and again, then crosses the room hastily.) Come to my room presently, Fanny, and bring the boy with thee.[Exit.
MANHAUNSLET.
MRS. BROWN.
HUGHO.
MRS. BROWN.
MISS FRANKLAND.
[As Paterson is leading them away Hugho runs to them, kisses Mrs. Brown's hand, and gives his hand kindly to Manhaunslet.]
HUGHO.
MISS FRANKLAND.
HUGHO.
SCENE III.
Lord Worrymore's Garden. Two Busts, covered with linen, in the back-ground, and Company assembled, amongst whom are discovered Lord Worrymore, Lady Shrewdly, &c. &c.
LORD WORRYMORE (to Servants).
(Retires amongst the crowd at the bottom of the Stage, whilst Lady Shrewdly and Sir John Crofton come forward.)
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
SIR JOHN.
LADY SHREWDLY.
Enter Blount.
Enter Colonel Frankland, leaning on Clermont and Miss Frankland; and Sir John Crofton, making them a distant bow, retires to the bottom of the Stage.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
CLERMONT.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
LORD WORRYMORE (now advancing to the front, and overhearing them).
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
LORD WORRYMORE.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
LORD WORRYMORE.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
Enter Lady Worrymore followed by her maid, carrying a basket with two laurel wreaths.
LORD WORRYMORE.
LADY WORRYMORE (looking round on the company, and bowing graciously).
LORD WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT.
LADY WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT (aside to Lady Shrewdly).
LORD WORRYMORE (to Lady Shrewdly).
LADY SHREWDLY.
LADY WORRYMORE.
LORD WORRYMORE.
LADY WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT (to Miss Frankland).
(Miss Frankland removes the veil from one of the busts, as Lady Worrymore raises the garland to crown it, but starts back, uttering a faint cry, on perceiving it to be the bust of her lord.)
LADY WORRYMORE.
LORD WORRYMORE.
LADY WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT.
LADY WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT.
LADY WORRYMORE (staring at him).
BLOUNT.
LADY WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT.
LORD WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT.
LORD WORRYMORE.
LADY WORRYMORE (holding her head to one side, and assuming an air of diffidence).
BLOUNT.
LORD WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT (following Lady Worrymore, as she turns away moodily).
CLERMONT.
LADY WORRYMORE.
LORD WORRYMORE.
BLOUNT (as before).
LADY WORRYMORE (dashing the wreath in his face).
BLOUNT.
LADY WORRYMORE.
LADY SHREWDLY (following her soothingly).
LADY WORRYMORE.
LADY SHREWDLY.
LORD WORRYMORE (following Lady Shrewdly and Lady Worrymore).
LADY WORRYMORE.
LORD WORRYMORE.
CLERMONT (advancing to Miss Frankland, who is now returned to the front).
MISS FRANKLAND.
CLERMONT.
MISS FRANKLAND.
CLERMONT.
MISS FRANKLAND.
CLERMONT.
COLONEL FRANKLAND (who has been listening behind backs).
CLERMONT.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
CLERMONT.
COLONEL FRANKLAND.
(Lord Worrymore and his Lady, hand-in-hand, advancing from the bottom of the stage.)
LORD WORRYMORE.
LADY SHREWDLY.
LORD WORRYMORE.
LADY WORRYMORE (gravely and demurely).
[Scene closes.
END OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
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