The Colony

to you. You therefore consent to do everything I will ask of you.

Just as if I were your true husband: & so that people believe it better, I am going to put on a fine outfit that was in a suitcase that I saved with us. We will spruce ourselves up in our own language, they will believe it for sure, go on, leave it to me. I would not be the first fool to have married such a beautiful woman.

SONG.

To be at the orders of Madam,
Will be my sweetest law.
A husband near his wife
Would be less humble than I.
(aside) Let us look like a married pair,
To make Marine rage
For having despised my promise.
(aloud) A husband near his wife
Would be less submissive than I.

She will rage in her soul
For having despised my promise.

SCENE VI.

Will heaven never tire of persecuting me? I have lost my parents, my fortune, all resources... I have lost my Lover, who would have been everything to me.... But what do I see, could it be possible! Do my eyes deceive me?.... Ah! no, I trust my heart. It is he....

Heavens! Bélinde in these parts! She was not expecting me, the faithless one! Let us pretend not to know her.

Gods! what coldness! He has seen me & has not