Snuff that candle!
OTHER MARQUIS (passing through the split in the curtain).
A chair, please!
(A chair is passed, from hand to hand, over the heads of the audience. The marquis takes it and disappears behind the curtain, after sending a few kisses up into the boxes.)
(Three raps on the stage. Curtain is drawn aside. Tableau. Marquises seated on either side of the stage, in impertinent attitudes. Drop represents a bluish pastoral scene. Low music by the violins.)
LE BRET (aside to Ragueneau).
Montfleury comes in at once, does he not?
RAGUENEAU (aside to Le Bret).
Yes. Monsieur de Cyrano is not here, and I have lost my bet.
LE BRET.