RAINA.
(riling). You are very solicitous about my happiness and his. Do you forget his new love—Louka? It is not you that he must fight now, but his rival, Nicola.
SERGIUS.
Rival!! (Striking his forehead.)
RAINA.
Did you not know that they are engaged?
SERGIUS.
Nicola! Are fresh abysses opening! Nicola!!
RAINA.
(sarcastically). A shocking sacrifice, isn’t it? Such beauty, such intellect, such modesty, wasted on a middle-aged servant man! Really, Sergius, you cannot stand by and allow such a thing. It would be unworthy of your chivalry.
SERGIUS.
(losing all self-control). Viper! Viper! (He rushes to and fro, raging.)
BLUNTSCHLI.
Look here, Saranoff; you’re getting the worst of this.
RAINA.
(getting angrier). Do you realize what he has done, Captain Bluntschli? He has set this girl as a spy on us; and her reward is that he makes love to her.
SERGIUS.
False! Monstrous!
RAINA.
Monstrous! (Confronting him.) Do you deny that she told you about Captain Bluntschli being in my room?