SCENE V.

LA BRIDE, CLAUDINE.

LA BRIDE.

I shall remember you for a long time, Dame Claudine: upon my word, if you had only wanted to.

CLAUDINE.

Well?

Air: But, yes indeed, I feel that, etc.

Without regret

Yes, I would have taken

The leap

That one always takes too soon.

Could you

Take a husband

More cheerful, sweeter,

More lively and less jealous?

If someone

Is not at all bothersome,

It is surely I:

For in my employment,

At the break of day,

No more love;

One is in a hurry,

And one leaves

His wife as the mistress.

Without regret, etc.

CLAUDINE.

Be quiet, you joker, here is my brother.