in it, and will at last make it perfectly so, in some way or other, known only to his wisdom. Ha! I hear a noise on the lawn.
Boy. (running out.) I must not lose a sight of the drowned man. For he'll be as dropping wet as any corpse, I dare say; for all that there is life in him.(Exit.
Mrs. B. I'll go and meet them. I'm strong enough now.
Dav. Let me support you. Madam.
Housem. (to Coach. as they go out.) La! will he be all wet, do you think, and stretched upon his back? (Exeunt by the glass door into the lawn, Mrs. B. supported by David. Light from a window is now thrown across the path without doors, and discovers Baltimore and servants carrying Freeman into the house by another entry. The scene closes.)
SCENE II. A room in Baltimore's house. Enter Simeon and David.
Dav. Now, my Old Simeon, you'll see your master as hearty, after his ducking, as if he were an otter, and could live either in the water or out of it; though we had some trouble to bring him to his senses at first.
Sim. Ay, do let me go to him quickly. It had been a sorrowful day to this grey head if my master had—
