_Mr. Carv._ Mrs. Carver, my dear, I must summon you to appear in open
court, at the suit or prayer of Honor McBride.

_Enter Mrs. CARVER, who is followed by Miss BLOOMSBURY, on tiptoe._

_Mrs. Carv._ Willingly.

_Mr. Carv._ The case lies in a nutshell, my dear: there is a man who swears
that Honor McBride was behind the chapel, with Randal Rooney putting a ring
on her finger, when the clock struck twelve, and our workmen's bell rang
this morning. Honor avers she was at Bob's Fort with you: now as she could
not be, like a bird, in two places at once--was she with you?

_Mrs. Carv._ Honor McBride was with me when the workmen's bell rang,
and when the clock struck twelve, this day--she stayed with me till two
o'clock.

[_All the ROONIES, except CATTY, exclaim--_

Oh, no going beyond the lady's word!

_Mrs. Carv._ And I think it but justice to add, that Honor McBride has this
day given me such proofs of her being a good girl, a good daughter, and a
good sister, that she has secured my good opinion and good wishes for life.

_Mr. Carv._ And mine in consequence.

_Bloom._ And mine of course. [_HONOR curtsies._