...please me. MIRA. : I am all obedience. [Exit. MRS. FAIN. : Yonder Sir Wilfull's drunk; and so noisie MILLA. : Well, if Mirabell should not make a good husband, I am a lost thing ; for I find I love him...

...unsentimental acceptance of him is "I think — I'll endure you," though she can tell Mrs. Fainall that "if Mirabell should not make a good husband, I am a lost thing, for I find I love him violently" (IV). She rejects the clichés of emotion, but the emotion itself is there, leaping forth in rare moments...

...with it, frowning, mocking. The audience is to know her true mind only after Mirabell has departed: Well, if Mirabell should not make a good husband,...am a lost thing - for I find I love him violently. By the end Millamant is arguably too immaculate to be a real woman, having exhibited everything ideally...

...of the depth of her feelings behind her mask of wit and raillery, as when she admits to Mrs Fainall, 'Well, If Mirabell should not make a good Husband,...am a lost thing; - for I find I love him violently' (p. 47o). Millamant too is an heiress, pursued by worthless suitors, and Mirabell is a rake who has...

...I am all obedience. Exit. MRS. FAINALL. Yonder Sir Wilfull's drunk, and so noisy that my mother 280 has been forced to leave Sir Rowland to appease him;...answers her only with singing and drinking. What they have done by this time I know not; but Petulant and he were quarreling as I came by. MILLAMANT. Well,...