admitted to. We parted in the morning, not soon to meet again.

_Mrs. Bev._ You mean to leave us then? To leave your country too?
I am no stranger to your reasons, and pity your misfortunes.

_Stu._ Your pity has undone you. Could Beverley do this? That letter
was a false one; a mean contrivance, to rob you of your jewels.
I wrote it not.

_Mrs. Bev._ Impossible! Whence came it then?

_Stu._ Wronged as I am, madam, I must speak plainly--

_Mrs. Bev._ Do so, and ease me. Your hints have troubled me.
Reports, you say, are stirring--Reports of whom? You wished me not
to credit them. What, Sir, are these reports?

_Stu._ I thought them slander, madam; and cautioned you in
friendship; left from officious tongues the tale had reached you,
with double aggravation.

_Mrs. Bev._ Proceed, Sir.

_Stu._ It is a debt due to my fame, due to an injured wife too--We
both are injured.

_Mrs. Bev._ How injured? and who has injured us?

_Stu._ My friend, your husband.