LAWSON. It's just an honest wife I let a flat to in Libberton's
Wynd. It'll be for the rent?

JEAN. Just that, sir.

LAWSON. Weel, ye can just bide here a wee, and I'll step down
the road to my office wi' ye. (EXEUNT BRODIE, LAWSON, LESLIE,
C.)


SCENE IV

SMITH, JEAN WATT, OLD BRODIE.

SMITH (BOWING THEM OUT). Your humble and most devoted servant,
George Smith, Esquire. And so this is the garding, is it? And
this is the style of horticulture? Ha, it is! (AT THE MIRROR.)
In that case George's mother bids him bind his hair. (KISSES HIS
HAND.) My dearest Duchess, - (TO JEAN.) I say, Jean, there's a
good deal of difference between this sort of thing and the way we
does it in Libberton's Wynd.

JEAN. I daursay. And what wad ye expeck?

SMITH. Ah, Jean, if you'd cast affection's glance on this poor
but honest soger! George Lord S. is not the nobleman to cut the
object of his flame before the giddy throng; nor to keep her
boxed up in an old mouse-trap, while he himself is revelling in
purple splendours like these. He didn't know you, Jean: he was
afraid to. Do you call that a man? Try a man that is.