RAGUENEAU (bowing low):
Six o’clock.
CYRANO (with emotion):
In one hour’s time!
(He paces up and down the shop.)
RAGUENEAU (following him):
Bravo! I saw. . .
CYRANO:
Well, what saw you, then?
RAGUENEAU:
Your combat!. . .
CYRANO:
Which?
RAGUENEAU:
That in the Burgundy Hotel, ’faith!
CYRANO (contemptuously):
Ah!. . .the duel!
RAGUENEAU (admiringly):
Ay! the duel in verse!. . .