father with a commission.--If you please, we will sit down. [He places
chairs, and they sit.] Count Cassel is arrived.

AMELIA. Yes, I know.

ANHALT. And do you know for what reason?

AMELIA. He wishes to marry me.

ANHALT. Does he? hastily] But believe me, the Baron will not
persuade you--No, I am sure he will not.

AMELIA. I know that.

ANHALT. He wishes that I should ascertain whether you have an
inclination ----

AMELIA. For the Count, or for matrimony do you mean?

ANHALT. For matrimony.

AMELIA. All things that I don't know, and don't understand, are quite
indifferent to me.

ANHALT. For that very reason I am sent to you to explain the good and
the bad of which matrimony is composed.

AMELIA. Then I beg first to be acquainted with the good.

ANHALT. When two sympathetic hearts meet in the marriage state,