Perde 5
[Textpart 3]
If you don’t tell me of any thing—
NAUSISTRATA
I wonder what all this can be.
DEMIPHO
For my part, upon my faith, I don’t know.
CHREMES
Would you like to know? Then, so may Jupiter preserve me, not a person is there more nearly related to her than are you and I.
DEMIPHO
Ye Gods, by our trust in you! let’s away to her; I wish for all of us, one way or other, to be sure about this (going).
DEMIPHO
What’s the matter?
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CHREMES
That you should put so little confidence in me!
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DEMIPHO
Do you wish me to believe you? Do you wish me to consider this as quite certain? Very well, be it so. Well, what’s to be done with our friend’sOur friend’s: Chremes himself is so called, to deceive Nausistrata. daughter?
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CHREMES
She’ll do well enough.
DEMIPHO
Are we to drop her, then?
DEMIPHO
The other one to stop?
DEMIPHO
You may go then, Nausistrata.
NAUSISTRATA
I’ faith, I think it better for all that she should remain here as it is,
than as you first intended; for she seemed to me a very genteel person when I saw her.
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DEMIPHO
What is the meaning of all this?
CHREMES
Has she shut the door yet?
