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SCENE II.
FONTALBE, MARINE.
MARINE.
Good day, Mr. Governor.
FONTALBE.
Good day, my beautiful child. Well, it is today that you are going to make someone happy.
MARINE.
Has it already been eight days since I have been on your island?
FONTALBE.
Yes, the eighth day is expiring. You must make a choice or leave.
MARINE.
Leave! And what do you want me to become? To be married, at least one knows where one stands.
FONTALBE.
By what chance did you land here? For it has not yet been possible for me to ask you.
MARINE.
I was a gardener in France. Our master and our mistress had business in Martinique. They took me with them; we arrived; but then, on the return, while we were in front of your island, there was a wind, a storm, lightning, the thunder... The ship shattered against the rocks, everything perished, and my poor master and my poor mistress drowned at the bottom of the sea. As for me, I had the good fortune to save myself, I do not know how, weeping for their accident, and especially the death of that unfortunate Blaise who accompanied us.
FONTALBE.
Who was this Blaise, then?
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