Emilia (Othello) exits and reappears after the brawl which disgraces Cassio. At the end of the scene, Iago is alone and plots to have Emilia "move for Cassio to her mistress". In 3.1, Cassio asks Emilia, "Give me advantage of some brief discourse with Desdemona alone." and Emilia allows him to enter. In 3.3, Emilia is present when Desdemona and Cassio confer, and present again when Desdemona urges Othello to receive the lieutenant. In the same scene, Emilia finds Desdemona's handkerchief, but, she hands it over to Iago as he had been urging her to steal it. He takes it and forbids
Manservant and Maidservant an altogether unforeseeable change of heart that the real difficulties begin. Is the repentant master a victim along with his sometime slaves? What compensation, or consolation, can there be for the wrongs that have been done?” — from the back cover of the NYRB Classics edition, 2001. Manservant and Maidservant Manservant and Maidservant is a 1947 novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. It was published in the United States with the title "Bullivant and the Lambs." Whenever the author was asked which of her novels were her favorites, she always mentioned "Manservant and Maidservant" and "A House and Its Head." “"Manservant and