{"id":52,"date":"2020-05-12T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/tartuffe\/?post_type=chapter&p=52"},"modified":"2020-05-12T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:00:40","slug":"scene-iv-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/tartuffe\/chapter\/scene-iv-3\/","title":{"raw":"Scene IV","rendered":"Scene IV"},"content":{"raw":"
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VALERE, MARIANE, DORINE<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nMadam, a piece of news\u2014quite new to me\u2014<\/span>\r\nHas just come out, and very fine it is.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nWhat piece of news?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYour marriage with Tartuffe.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\n'Tis true my father has this plan in mind.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYour father, madam . . .<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nYes, he's changed his plans,<\/span>\r\nAnd did but now propose it to me.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nWhat!<\/span>\r\nSeriously?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nYes, he was serious,<\/span>\r\nAnd openly insisted on the match.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nAnd what's your resolution in the matter,<\/span>\r\nMadam?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nI don't know.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nThat's a pretty answer.<\/span>\r\nYou don't know?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nNo.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nNo?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nWhat do you advise?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nI? My advice is, marry him, by all means.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nThat's your advice?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYes.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nDo you mean it?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nSurely.<\/span>\r\nA splendid choice, and worthy of your acceptance.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nOh, very well, sir! I shall take your counsel.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYou'll find no trouble taking it, I warrant.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nNo more than you did giving it, be sure.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nI gave it, truly, to oblige you, madam.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nAnd I shall take it to oblige you, sir.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDorine (withdrawing to the back of the stage)<\/span>\r\nLet's see what this affair will come to.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nSo,<\/span>\r\nThat is your love? And it was all deceit<\/span>\r\nWhen you . . .<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nI beg you, say no more of that.<\/span>\r\nYou told me, squarely, sir, I should accept<\/span>\r\nThe husband that is offered me; and I<\/span>\r\nWill tell you squarely that I mean to do so,<\/span>\r\nSince you have given me this good advice.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nDon't shield yourself with talk of my advice.<\/span>\r\nYou had your mind made up, that's evident;<\/span>\r\nAnd now you're snatching at a trifling pretext<\/span>\r\nTo justify the breaking of your word.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nExactly so.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nOf course it is; your heart<\/span>\r\nHas never known true love for me.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nAlas!<\/span>\r\nYou're free to think so, if you please.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYes, yes,<\/span>\r\nI'm free to think so; and my outraged love<\/span>\r\nMay yet forestall you in your perfidy,<\/span>\r\nAnd offer elsewhere both my heart and hand.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nNo doubt of it; the love your high deserts<\/span>\r\nMay win . . .<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nGood Lord, have done with my deserts!<\/span>\r\nI know I have but few, and you have proved it.<\/span>\r\nBut I may find more kindness in another;<\/span>\r\nI know of someone, who'll not be ashamed<\/span>\r\nTo take your leavings, and make up my loss.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nThe loss is not so great; you'll easily<\/span>\r\nConsole yourself completely for this change.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nI'll try my best, that you may well believe.<\/span>\r\nWhen we're forgotten by a woman's heart,<\/span>\r\nOur pride is challenged; we, too, must forget;<\/span>\r\nOr if we cannot, must at least pretend to.<\/span>\r\nNo other way can man such baseness prove,<\/span>\r\nAs be a lover scorned, and still in love.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nIn faith, a high and noble sentiment.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYes; and it's one that all men must approve.<\/span>\r\nWhat! Would you have me keep my love alive,<\/span>\r\nAnd see you fly into another's arms<\/span>\r\nBefore my very eyes; and never offer<\/span>\r\nTo someone else the heart that you had scorned?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nOh, no, indeed! For my part, I could wish<\/span>\r\nThat it were done already.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nWhat! You wish it?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nYes.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nThis is insult heaped on injury;<\/span>\r\nI'll go at once and do as you desire.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(He takes a step or two as if to go away.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nOh, very well then.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (turning back)<\/span>\r\nBut remember this.<\/span>\r\n'Twas you that drove me to this desperate pass.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nOf course.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (turning back again)<\/span>\r\nAnd in the plan that I have formed<\/span>\r\nI only follow your example.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nYes.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (at the door)<\/span>\r\nEnough; you shall be punctually obeyed.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nSo much the better.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (coming back again)<\/span>\r\nThis is once for all.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nSo be it, then.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (He goes toward the door, but just as he reaches it, turns around)<\/span>\r\nEh?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nWhat?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYou didn't call me?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nI? You are dreaming.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nVery well, I'm gone. Madam, farewell.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(He walks slowly away.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nFarewell, sir.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nI must say<\/span>\r\nYou've lost your senses and both gone clean daft!<\/span>\r\nI've let you fight it out to the end o' the chapter<\/span>\r\nTo see how far the thing could go. Oho, there,<\/span>\r\nMister Valere!<\/span>\r\n\r\n(She goes and seizes him by the arm, to stop him. He makes a great show of resistance.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nWhat do you want, Dorine?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nCome here.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nNo, no, I'm quite beside myself.<\/span>\r\nDon't hinder me from doing as she wishes.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nStop!<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nNo. You see, I'm fixed, resolved, determined.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nSo!<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE (aside)<\/span>\r\nSince my presence pains him, makes him go,<\/span>\r\nI'd better go myself, and leave him free.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE (leaving Valere, and running after Mariane)<\/span>\r\nNow t'other! Where are you going?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nLet me be.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE.<\/span>\r\nCome back.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nNo, no, it isn't any use.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (aside)<\/span>\r\n'Tis clear the sight of me is torture to her;<\/span>\r\nNo doubt, t'were better I should free her from it.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE (leaving Mariane and running after Valere)<\/span>\r\nSame thing again! Deuce take you both, I say.<\/span>\r\nNow stop your fooling; come here, you; and you.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(She pulls first one, then the other, toward the middle of the stage.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (to Dorine)<\/span>\r\nWhat's your idea?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE (to Dorine)<\/span>\r\nWhat can you mean to do?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nSet you to rights, and pull you out o' the scrape.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Valere)<\/span>\r\nAre you quite mad, to quarrel with her now?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nDidn't you hear the things she said to me?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE (to Mariane)<\/span>\r\nAre you quite mad, to get in such a passion?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nDidn't you see the way he treated me?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nFools, both of you.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Valere)<\/span>\r\nShe thinks of nothing else<\/span>\r\nBut to keep faith with you, I vouch for it.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Mariane)<\/span>\r\nAnd he loves none but you, and longs for nothing<\/span>\r\nBut just to marry you, I stake my life on't.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE (to Valere)<\/span>\r\nWhy did you give me such advice then, pray?<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (to Mariane)<\/span>\r\nWhy ask for my advice on such a matter?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nYou both are daft, I tell you. Here, your hands.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Valere)<\/span>\r\nCome, yours.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (giving Dorine his hand)<\/span>\r\nWhat for?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE (to Mariane)<\/span>\r\nNow, yours.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE (giving Dorine her hand)<\/span>\r\nBut what's the use?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nOh, quick now, come along. There, both of you\u2014<\/span>\r\nYou love each other better than you think.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(Valere and Mariane hold each other's hands some time without looking at each other.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (at last turning toward Mariane)<\/span>\r\nCome, don't be so ungracious now about it;<\/span>\r\nLook at a man as if you didn't hate him.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(Mariane looks sideways toward Valere, with just a bit of a smile.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nMy faith and troth, what fools these lovers be!<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (to Mariane)<\/span>\r\nBut come now, have I not a just complaint?<\/span>\r\nAnd truly, are you not a wicked creature<\/span>\r\nTo take delight in saying what would pain me?<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nAnd are you not yourself the most ungrateful . . .\u00a0?<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nLeave this discussion till another time;<\/span>\r\nNow, think how you'll stave off this plaguy marriage.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE<\/span>\r\nThen tell us how to go about it.<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nWell,<\/span>\r\nWe'll try all sorts of ways.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Mariane)<\/span>\r\nYour father's daft;<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Valere)<\/span>\r\nThis plan is nonsense.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Mariane)<\/span>\r\nYou had better humour<\/span>\r\nHis notions by a semblance of consent,<\/span>\r\nSo that in case of danger, you can still<\/span>\r\nFind means to block the marriage by delay.<\/span>\r\nIf you gain time, the rest is easy, trust me.<\/span>\r\nOne day you'll fool them with a sudden illness,<\/span>\r\nCausing delay; another day, ill omens:<\/span>\r\nYou've met a funeral, or broke a mirror,<\/span>\r\nOr dreamed of muddy water. Best of all,<\/span>\r\nThey cannot marry you to anyone<\/span>\r\nWithout your saying yes. But now, methinks,<\/span>\r\nThey mustn't find you chattering together.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(To Valere)<\/span>\r\nYou, go at once and set your friends at work<\/span>\r\nTo make him keep his word to you; while we<\/span>\r\nWill bring the brother's influence to bear,<\/span>\r\nAnd get the step-mother on our side, too.<\/span>\r\nGood-bye.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (to Mariane)<\/span>\r\nWhatever efforts we may make,<\/span>\r\nMy greatest hope, be sure, must rest on you.<\/span>\r\n\r\nMARIANE (to Valere)<\/span>\r\nI cannot answer for my father's whims;<\/span>\r\nBut no one save Valere shall ever have me.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE<\/span>\r\nYou thrill me through with joy! Whatever comes . . .<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nOho! These lovers! Never done with prattling!<\/span>\r\nNow go.<\/span>\r\n\r\nVALERE (starting to go, and coming back again)<\/span>\r\nOne last word . . .<\/span>\r\n\r\nDORINE<\/span>\r\nWhat a gabble and pother!<\/span>\r\nBe off! By this door, you. And you, by t'other.<\/span>\r\n\r\n(She pushes them off, by the shoulders, in opposite directions.)<\/span>","rendered":"

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VALERE, MARIANE, DORINE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nMadam, a piece of news\u2014quite new to me\u2014<\/span>
\nHas just come out, and very fine it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nWhat piece of news?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYour marriage with Tartuffe.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\n‘Tis true my father has this plan in mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYour father, madam . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nYes, he’s changed his plans,<\/span>
\nAnd did but now propose it to me.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nWhat!<\/span>
\nSeriously?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nYes, he was serious,<\/span>
\nAnd openly insisted on the match.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nAnd what’s your resolution in the matter,<\/span>
\nMadam?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nI don’t know.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nThat’s a pretty answer.<\/span>
\nYou don’t know?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nNo.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nNo?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nWhat do you advise?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nI? My advice is, marry him, by all means.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nThat’s your advice?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYes.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nDo you mean it?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nSurely.<\/span>
\nA splendid choice, and worthy of your acceptance.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nOh, very well, sir! I shall take your counsel.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYou’ll find no trouble taking it, I warrant.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nNo more than you did giving it, be sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nI gave it, truly, to oblige you, madam.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nAnd I shall take it to oblige you, sir.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dorine (withdrawing to the back of the stage)<\/span>
\nLet’s see what this affair will come to.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nSo,<\/span>
\nThat is your love? And it was all deceit<\/span>
\nWhen you . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nI beg you, say no more of that.<\/span>
\nYou told me, squarely, sir, I should accept<\/span>
\nThe husband that is offered me; and I<\/span>
\nWill tell you squarely that I mean to do so,<\/span>
\nSince you have given me this good advice.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nDon’t shield yourself with talk of my advice.<\/span>
\nYou had your mind made up, that’s evident;<\/span>
\nAnd now you’re snatching at a trifling pretext<\/span>
\nTo justify the breaking of your word.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nExactly so.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nOf course it is; your heart<\/span>
\nHas never known true love for me.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nAlas!<\/span>
\nYou’re free to think so, if you please.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYes, yes,<\/span>
\nI’m free to think so; and my outraged love<\/span>
\nMay yet forestall you in your perfidy,<\/span>
\nAnd offer elsewhere both my heart and hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nNo doubt of it; the love your high deserts<\/span>
\nMay win . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nGood Lord, have done with my deserts!<\/span>
\nI know I have but few, and you have proved it.<\/span>
\nBut I may find more kindness in another;<\/span>
\nI know of someone, who’ll not be ashamed<\/span>
\nTo take your leavings, and make up my loss.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nThe loss is not so great; you’ll easily<\/span>
\nConsole yourself completely for this change.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nI’ll try my best, that you may well believe.<\/span>
\nWhen we’re forgotten by a woman’s heart,<\/span>
\nOur pride is challenged; we, too, must forget;<\/span>
\nOr if we cannot, must at least pretend to.<\/span>
\nNo other way can man such baseness prove,<\/span>
\nAs be a lover scorned, and still in love.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nIn faith, a high and noble sentiment.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYes; and it’s one that all men must approve.<\/span>
\nWhat! Would you have me keep my love alive,<\/span>
\nAnd see you fly into another’s arms<\/span>
\nBefore my very eyes; and never offer<\/span>
\nTo someone else the heart that you had scorned?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nOh, no, indeed! For my part, I could wish<\/span>
\nThat it were done already.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nWhat! You wish it?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nYes.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nThis is insult heaped on injury;<\/span>
\nI’ll go at once and do as you desire.<\/span><\/p>\n

(He takes a step or two as if to go away.)<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nOh, very well then.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (turning back)<\/span>
\nBut remember this.<\/span>
\n‘Twas you that drove me to this desperate pass.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nOf course.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (turning back again)<\/span>
\nAnd in the plan that I have formed<\/span>
\nI only follow your example.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nYes.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (at the door)<\/span>
\nEnough; you shall be punctually obeyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nSo much the better.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (coming back again)<\/span>
\nThis is once for all.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nSo be it, then.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (He goes toward the door, but just as he reaches it, turns around)<\/span>
\nEh?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nWhat?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYou didn’t call me?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nI? You are dreaming.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nVery well, I’m gone. Madam, farewell.<\/span><\/p>\n

(He walks slowly away.)<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nFarewell, sir.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nI must say<\/span>
\nYou’ve lost your senses and both gone clean daft!<\/span>
\nI’ve let you fight it out to the end o’ the chapter<\/span>
\nTo see how far the thing could go. Oho, there,<\/span>
\nMister Valere!<\/span><\/p>\n

(She goes and seizes him by the arm, to stop him. He makes a great show of resistance.)<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nWhat do you want, Dorine?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nCome here.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nNo, no, I’m quite beside myself.<\/span>
\nDon’t hinder me from doing as she wishes.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nStop!<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nNo. You see, I’m fixed, resolved, determined.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nSo!<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE (aside)<\/span>
\nSince my presence pains him, makes him go,<\/span>
\nI’d better go myself, and leave him free.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE (leaving Valere, and running after Mariane)<\/span>
\nNow t’other! Where are you going?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nLet me be.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE.<\/span>
\nCome back.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nNo, no, it isn’t any use.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (aside)<\/span>
\n‘Tis clear the sight of me is torture to her;<\/span>
\nNo doubt, t’were better I should free her from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE (leaving Mariane and running after Valere)<\/span>
\nSame thing again! Deuce take you both, I say.<\/span>
\nNow stop your fooling; come here, you; and you.<\/span><\/p>\n

(She pulls first one, then the other, toward the middle of the stage.)<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (to Dorine)<\/span>
\nWhat’s your idea?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE (to Dorine)<\/span>
\nWhat can you mean to do?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nSet you to rights, and pull you out o’ the scrape.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Valere)<\/span>
\nAre you quite mad, to quarrel with her now?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nDidn’t you hear the things she said to me?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE (to Mariane)<\/span>
\nAre you quite mad, to get in such a passion?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nDidn’t you see the way he treated me?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nFools, both of you.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Valere)<\/span>
\nShe thinks of nothing else<\/span>
\nBut to keep faith with you, I vouch for it.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Mariane)<\/span>
\nAnd he loves none but you, and longs for nothing<\/span>
\nBut just to marry you, I stake my life on’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE (to Valere)<\/span>
\nWhy did you give me such advice then, pray?<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (to Mariane)<\/span>
\nWhy ask for my advice on such a matter?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nYou both are daft, I tell you. Here, your hands.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Valere)<\/span>
\nCome, yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (giving Dorine his hand)<\/span>
\nWhat for?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE (to Mariane)<\/span>
\nNow, yours.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE (giving Dorine her hand)<\/span>
\nBut what’s the use?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nOh, quick now, come along. There, both of you\u2014<\/span>
\nYou love each other better than you think.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Valere and Mariane hold each other’s hands some time without looking at each other.)<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (at last turning toward Mariane)<\/span>
\nCome, don’t be so ungracious now about it;<\/span>
\nLook at a man as if you didn’t hate him.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Mariane looks sideways toward Valere, with just a bit of a smile.)<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nMy faith and troth, what fools these lovers be!<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (to Mariane)<\/span>
\nBut come now, have I not a just complaint?<\/span>
\nAnd truly, are you not a wicked creature<\/span>
\nTo take delight in saying what would pain me?<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nAnd are you not yourself the most ungrateful . . .\u00a0?<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nLeave this discussion till another time;<\/span>
\nNow, think how you’ll stave off this plaguy marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE<\/span>
\nThen tell us how to go about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nWell,<\/span>
\nWe’ll try all sorts of ways.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Mariane)<\/span>
\nYour father’s daft;<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Valere)<\/span>
\nThis plan is nonsense.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Mariane)<\/span>
\nYou had better humour<\/span>
\nHis notions by a semblance of consent,<\/span>
\nSo that in case of danger, you can still<\/span>
\nFind means to block the marriage by delay.<\/span>
\nIf you gain time, the rest is easy, trust me.<\/span>
\nOne day you’ll fool them with a sudden illness,<\/span>
\nCausing delay; another day, ill omens:<\/span>
\nYou’ve met a funeral, or broke a mirror,<\/span>
\nOr dreamed of muddy water. Best of all,<\/span>
\nThey cannot marry you to anyone<\/span>
\nWithout your saying yes. But now, methinks,<\/span>
\nThey mustn’t find you chattering together.<\/span><\/p>\n

(To Valere)<\/span>
\nYou, go at once and set your friends at work<\/span>
\nTo make him keep his word to you; while we<\/span>
\nWill bring the brother’s influence to bear,<\/span>
\nAnd get the step-mother on our side, too.<\/span>
\nGood-bye.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (to Mariane)<\/span>
\nWhatever efforts we may make,<\/span>
\nMy greatest hope, be sure, must rest on you.<\/span><\/p>\n

MARIANE (to Valere)<\/span>
\nI cannot answer for my father’s whims;<\/span>
\nBut no one save Valere shall ever have me.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE<\/span>
\nYou thrill me through with joy! Whatever comes . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nOho! These lovers! Never done with prattling!<\/span>
\nNow go.<\/span><\/p>\n

VALERE (starting to go, and coming back again)<\/span>
\nOne last word . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

DORINE<\/span>
\nWhat a gabble and pother!<\/span>
\nBe off! By this door, you. And you, by t’other.<\/span><\/p>\n

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