Portia (cont.)
By the bad voice.
Lorenzo
Dear lady, welcome home.
Portia
We have been praying for our husbands’ healths,
Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
Are they return’d?
Lorenzo
Madam, they are not yet;
But there is come a messenger before,
To signify their coming.
Portia
Give order to my servants that they take
No note at all of our being absent hence;
Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.