V (Ch 3) vii

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The conversation between Porpy and Victoria is quite easy to follow imo.

> "I followed you," the girl said. "Papa would die if he found out." Hanne
> could see her face, half in shadow. "About Mr. Goodfellow."

"I followed you (... here" i.e. She has followed Porpy to the bierhall).

"Papa (i.e. my father, Sir Alastair) would die if he found out (...) about
(my sexual dalliance with) Mr Goodfellow." (92.31-2)

Victoria has followed Porpy to plead with him not to tell her father (Sir
Alastair, Porpy's superior) about her extra-curricular activities with Gf.

> We still don't really have it set down in stone whether Victoria is the
> daughter or mistress of Sir Alastair Wren, do we.

She refers to him as "Papa"(92.31); Porpy refers to Sir Alastair as "your
father".(92.33)

92.33: "Your father was in a German church this afternoon." (i.e.
Porpentine, and perhaps Goodfellow too, have been shadowing Sir Alastair;
probably acting as bodyguards I would say, or perhaps spies: this is never
quite spelled out. It struck him as unusual that Sir Alastair went into this
church, which is why Porpy is remarking on it, and the coincidence that he
and Victoria are now in a German bierhall.) ... "Sir Alastair was listening
to someone play Bach. As if Bach were all that were left." (i.e. Sir
Alastair appeared to be engrossed in the music, heedless of anything and
everything else, quite forlorn or fatalistic in his general mien.) "So that
he may know." (i.e. Sir Alastair might already know about his daughter and
Goodfellow. i.e. Porpy is speculating on the cause of Sir Alastair's sudden
bout of melancholy being due to his awareness of Victoria's loss of
maidenhood.)

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