Lisette (pretending to be very angry to leave the Baron)
No! Don't leave him!
Lucas I have told him, and I am no traitor. I've told him of it a while ago, and I'm going.
Lisette
To leave to find a master!
Lucas As you are growing up, it's a cruelty to stay here. In a village, you lose your time and your beauty. You can merchandise your youth better in the Paris marriage market. Yes, I will take you to Paris, and very soon, because time presses. Although a vertigo irritates me momentarily, what I want is only reasonable, and I shall be as bold as brass. (pushing his hat onto his head and passing before the Baron) I am upset to leave him, but death, I shall console myself. (exits)
Baron
He was very abrupt with me on a frivolous subject. Has he gone crazy?
What can he intend to do?
Lisette (twisting her handkerchief)
I will never see you any more. I am in despair.
Baron
There's always some shadow maiming fortune.
Lisette
He's wrong, for, sir, I see what he is hoping.
Baron
He would suddenly become a great lord.
Lisette (looking tenderly at the Baron) Yes, to see me a great lady, and that is my misfortune. He imagines something that can't be. The daughter of a farmer is not for his master.