REBECCA. Won't you take your breakfast, sir? it's all getting cold.
VAN. Don't talk to me of breakfast! Stay! on second thoughts I don't know! I must keep up my strength! _Nourish_ my revenge! Not eat my breakfast! I'll go into training like a prize fighter! eat raw beefsteaks every day for a month, and then come down upon him like the Gladiator! (_striking the attitude_) Or Alcides throwing Lychas into the sea! (_attitude_) Look out for yourself, Bobbins! I feel as if I had the thews of the Farnesian Hercules! Oh! for the apples of the Hesperides, to hit him in the eye, and a club like a weaver's beam to knock his brains out!--my breakfast, I say! my breakfast!
REBECCA. This is the way to the parlour, sir! (_pointing L. D._)
VAN. (_taking up morning gown and flinging it over his left arm as drapery_) Don't trouble yourself to show me the way to the parlour! (_crosses to D._) I know the way to the parlour! Look out for yourself Bobbins!
REBECCA. (R.) He must be some madman escaped from a lunatic asylum. I don't like being left alone with him in the house--I wish master would come home--oh, here he is!
AUGUS. Has there been a parcel left here since I went out?
REBECCA. Yes, sir, there it is on the table. Were you expecting any one to call this morning, sir?
AUGUS. No, no one--(_looking up_) why, has anybody been?
REBECCA. He wouldn't give any name, sir. He came in with a latch key, without knocking.
AUGUS. With a latch key? How do you mean? How did he come by it?
REBECCA. I don't know, sir; he appears to be a very extraordinary person, I hardly know what to make of him. He hadn't been five minutes in the house before he asked me to get him some breakfast.
AUGUS. Some begging imposter, I dare say.
REBECCA. No, sir, I don't think that, he was very well dressed.
AUGUS. That's nothing, he might have been one of the swell mob for anything you know to the contrary--the town swarms with well dressed swindlers now-a-days.
REBECCA. He said he wanted to see mistress.
AUGUS. Well, and how did you get rid of him?
REBECCA. I didn't get rid of him at all, sir; he is in the house now.
REBECCA. I thought he was some relation or friend of the family--he's taking his breakfast in the parlour.
AUGUS. Taking his breakfast in the parlour! What? alone with the silver spoons!