The Scandalous Lady W Page #6

Or of conscious, or of any

loyalty at all to your master.

Why, my lord, these are crocodile tears.

My lady only loves Captain Bisset.

Love?

And my lady loves her

daughter Jane dearly.

Then why, madam, did you lady desert her?

The court calls Captain Leversuch.

Do you recollect Captain Bisset

and Lady Worsley at a party

together which met at your house

the very night of the elopement?

Yes, my lord, I recall it

with the utmost clarity.

Captain Bisset played the

piano for our entertainment.

Bravo!

They make quite a pair, wouldn't you say?

It does your husband much credit

that he is no Othello.

They are so dear to me,

so very dear to me.

What lady could be more fortunate

to have a husband of such distinction

and a friend of such

devotion to both of us?

And Sir Richard is the best

and most generous kind of man.

I dare say I thought no such

friendship could exist.

Oh, I've a terrible migraine.

Ale afflicts me so.

Sir, that is the claret.

Oh...

He is often afflicted with the migraine

and none so often as in the bedchamber.

You are wicked, madam. You are wicked.

Why is it wicked, sir, to

laugh and speak the truth?

Pope is a duddering ninny who

was fool enough to fall in love

with a woman who did not love him

and who was far his superior

in every respect.

I am familiar with the predicament, sir.

But most cruel.

It is said that Lady Montagu laughed

at Pope as he unfolded his heart.

It is a cold heart that's not

moved by the tragic beauty

of Pope's two lovers stuck by lightning.

Pope's work does not compare to the

verses of Lady Montagu herself.

"The man who feels the dear disease,

"Forgets himself, neglects to please. "

Well, Pope is the greatest

poet that's ever lived.

I know they find me a terrible

bore, Mrs Leversuch,

but what I am to do but be myself?

Huh?

I'll see you out.

I cannot spend another

week in his company.

Then why do we not leave tonight?

Do you mean it, George?

I do but if you want

to go, we must go now.

And what of Jane?

We cannot take the child tonight,

the risk is too great.

- I cannot leave without her,

George. - Then we cannot go.

Listen to reason, Seymour.

If we take the child tonight,

he will know that we are leaving

and he will never allow that.

What are you two lovebirds

twittering over?

We must send word to

Mary, she can bring Jane

and all my belongings in the morning

to us and send word to Deerhurst.

Goodnight, my dears. Goodnight!

And you had no knowledge of this affair?

No.

I heard not a whisper, my lord,

of any relationship of that kind

between Lady Worsley and Captain Bisset.

And did Sir Richard Worsley know

of this adulterous relationship

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