You be
deuced careful, I mean to say.
MARIANO [with dignity]. I will give him to the porter.
[He carries the animal into the hotel.]
LADY CREECH. Almeric, really, there are more important things, you know.
ALMERIC. But you don't seem to realize I might have missed him
altogether. I think I'm rather to be congratulated, you know. What?
PIKE. I think you are, my son. I have given my consent.
ALMERIC. Rippin'!
LADY CREECH. And the settlement?
PIKE. The settlement also--everything!
[ETHEL enters from the hotel, followed by HORACE.]
LADY CREECH [greatly relieved and overjoyed, starting toward ETHEL].
Ethel, my dear!
ALMERIC [cheerfully]. I told you it would all be plain sailing, Aunty.
There was nothing to worry about.
LADY CREECH [continuing, to ETHEL]. All shall be forgiven, my child. I
am too pleased, too overjoyed in your good-fortune to remember any
little bickerings between us. The sky has cleared wonderfully.
Everything is settled.
ETHEL. Yes; it's all over; my guardian has consented.
ALMERIC. Of course _I_ never worried about it--but I fancy it will be a
weight off the Governor's mind. I'll see that a wire catches him at
Naples--and he'll be glad to know what became of that arrangement about
the convict fellow, too.
ETHEL [very seriously].
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