It is ironic because her entrance into a scene that Iago
has set up for Othello to overhear him discuss with Cassio his "mistress" (meaning
Desdemona) is the icing on the cake that sells Othello on the idea that Cassio is having
an affair with is wife.
In this scene, Act IV, scene i,
Bianca comes in on this by accident, much to Iago's ironic luck, and says to
Cassio:
..what
did you mean by that same handerchief you gave me even now? I was a fine fool to take
it. . . .This is some minx's token. . . .There! Give it the hobby-horse, wheresoever
you had it. . .
And so,
Bianca seems to confirm Othello's suspicions about Cassio and Desdemona by alluding to
the "minx" that Cassio supposedly got the handkerchief
from.
And for some added dramatic irony, the audience is
fully aware that Iago gave the handkerchief to Cassio, not
Desdemona.
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