ROXANE:
Oh!

DE GUICHE:
I am ordered away. We are to besiege Arras.

ROXANE:
Ah—to besiege?. . .

DE GUICHE:
Ay. My going moves you not, meseems.

ROXANE:
Nay. . .

DE GUICHE:
I am grieved to the core of the heart. Shall I again behold you?. . .When?
I know not. Heard you that I am named commander?. . .

ROXANE (indifferently):
Bravo!

DE GUICHE:
Of the Guards regiment.

ROXANE (startled):
What! the Guards?

DE GUICHE:
Ay, where serves your cousin, the swaggering boaster. I will find a way to
revenge myself on him at Arras.