OCTAVE, LÉANDRE, SCAPIN. OCT Well, Scapin, have your plans been successful? LEA Have you done anything towards alleviating my sorrow? SCA (to OCTAVE). Here are two hundred pistoles I have got from your father. OCT Ah! how happy you make me. SCA (to LÉANDRE), But I could do nothing for you. LEA (going away). Then I must die, Sir, for I could not live without Zerbinette. SCA Hallo! stop, stop; my goodness, how quick you are! LEA
What can become of me? SCA There, there, I have all you want. LEA Ah! you bring me back to life again. SCA But I give it you only on one condition, which is that you will allow me to revenge myself a little on your father for the trick he has played me. LEA You may do as you please. SCA You promise it to me before witnesses? LEA Yes. SCA There, take these five hundred crowns. LEA Ah! I will go at once and buy her whom I adore.