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HIS WIFE.
Alone? ah! I believe that. These Lords are good when they are alone; but before people they rise, they rise like boiled milk idiomatic: a common French expression meaning to lose one's temper quickly..
M. S I M O N.
Be quiet, be quiet, impertinent woman; with your boiled milk; you have nothing but foolishness to say. Master Nicolas, put on my wig; put it on, put it on.
HIS WIFE.
I wish the devil had taken, both the Lord, and the hare, and the garden. With his bad vanity...
M. S I M O N, turning around to speak to his wife, throws his wig on the ground, & walks on it.
Will you not be quiet? Ah, by God! Ah, my wig! ah, dog of a woman! ah, Heaven!
M. N I C O L A S.
Hey, by God, you are as angry as gunpowder.
M. S I M O N.
Devil of a woman! Ah! my wig will not be ready!
M. N I C O L A S.
A stroke of the comb, and I am back.
M. S I M O N.
How, can I not have any peace?
M. N I C O L A S, retracing his steps.
Hey, but, if I told our Syndics....
M. S I M O N.
Hey by God, if you had returned, that would be better.
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