Scene V.
John alone at first, afterwards Lionnette.
John, standing alone, lays his hand on the top of a chair; then he pulls off his cravat and loosens the collar of his shirt, as if he were suffocating and wished to breathe more freely. He goes at length to the window, breathes the air strongly two or three times, and walks towards the door by which Lionnette went out: Lionnette enters by the same door when he is half-way towards it.
John (standing still).
Where have you come from?
Lionnette.
I have just come from putting the child to bed, who was very disobedient this evening, and I came back to find the gentlemen again.
John.
They are all three gone.
Lionnette.