RAGUENEAU (entering rapidly).
Oh! Madam!
(noticing Le Bret). Oh! Sir!
ROXANE (smiling).
Tell your misfortunes to Le Bret. I shall be back presently.
(Exit Roxane, with the Duke, without listening to Ragueneau, who comes down toward Le Bret.)
SCENE III.
LE BRET, RAGUENEAU.
RAGUENEAU.
After all, since you are here, Sir, it is just as well that she should be kept in ignorance! I was on my way to see your friend, this afternoon, when, as I was nearing his door, I saw him coming out. As I was endeavouring to overtake him, and as he was turning the corner, a window above him opened, and,—was it through accident? perhaps! a lackey dropped upon him a heavy log of wood.