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The Double-Dealer

by William Congreve

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Act V

Scene I

Lady Touchwood and Maskwell.

LADY TOUCH. Was’t not lucky?

MASK. Lucky! Fortune is your own, and ’tis her interest so to be. By heaven I believe you can control her power, and she fears it: though chance brought my lord, ’twas your own art that turned it to advantage.

LADY TOUCH. ’Tis true it might have been my ruin. But yonder’s my lord. I believe he’s coming to find you: I’ll not be seen.

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