ARAMINTE: Our promissory notes.
BELISE: Our promissory notes.
ARAMINTE: We've suffered a great wrong. To promise this nephew a hundred thousand francs each.
BELISE: I have just refused this importunate demand and I believe he's unaware of our plans. For a little money he will return our notes to us.
ARAMINTE: But to discharge them, what trick can we employ?
(Enter Geronte, Valere, Isabelle)
VALERE: (to Geronte) Take advantage of the opportunity. Better not wait. They are pushing their explanation a long way. (aloud) Isabelle didn't leave my aunts happily. And I've learned some good news.
GERONTE: I come to rejoice for the sake of Isabelle's love.
ISABELLE: I come with all my heart to congratulate you and I saw immediately it was in joking that you always declaimed against marriage, for you yourselves—
ARAMINTE: We ourselves—