ACTE III, SCÈNE III
1: Il ne manquerait plus que ça: I should think not, indeed! Lit., «There would be lacking nothing but that (for the height ofabsurdity, etc.).»
2: un petit air pincé: a little look of conscious superiority. Pincé because of the «pinched lips» of a person who does not wish to speak what heknows. «Perrichon accuses Armand of betraying in his face an ever presentconsciousness of the service he has rendered although Armand never méntionsit.