Excerpt from The World's Own

Scene I. - A Village Green, with peasants dancing to the sound of rustic music. In the front stand Edward and Jacques, looking on. The dance ceases, the villagers disperse.

Edward.

Comes Leonora to the dance no more?
I thought to find her here.

Jacques.

In other ways
She wanders, with the stranger from the inn,
That supercilious Signor Prettyman,
Whose pleasure-travel stopped, some three weeks since,
For the repairing of a carriage-spring.

Edward.

Three weeks to set so small a matter right?
Your smiths are bunglers.

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