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detain you: pray permit me to get into the carriage with you, that I may enjoy your company the longer.

MISS FRANKLAND.

You are very kind.

[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).

Ay, this here book of maps has had a long rest in the old bookcase; I wonder what campaigns and battles he has got into his head now. Howsomever, it signifies little, so as they can keep his notions of his own constitution, as he calls it, and ill-formed gout and affection of the kidneys, and the Lord knows what! out of it.

Enter Colonel Frankland, leaning on his stick.

COLONEL FRANKLAND (after seating himself, and looking at his hand).

I think this stiffness in my joints must be