"Ah! plague take it! That is all there is," said Beudin. "What, you stop there?"
"Yes ... the deuce! you know well enough that if the play were concluded we should not want your assistance!"
"Quite so ... but still, you must have some idea concerning the rest of the play?"
"Yes ... Richard has grown up under his father's care. Richard is ambitious, and wants to become a member of the House of Commons. Dr. Grey's influence can help him: he pretends to be in love with his daughter ... We will have the spectacle of an English election, which will be out of the common."
"And then?"
"Well then, you must invent the rest."
"But, come, that means that there is nearly the whole thing to finish!"
"Yes, very nearly ... But that won't trouble you!"
"That's all very well; but, at this moment, I am busy on my drama, Charles VII., and I cannot give my mind to anything else."
"Oh! there is no desperate hurry for it! meantime Goubaux will work away at it whilst I will do likewise ... You like the idea?"