SYLVETTE. What?
BERGAMIN. Nothing!
SYLVETTE. [To BERGAMIN] You seem changed. What do you mean?
BERGAMIN. I mean—
PASQUINOT. Why, with one word, we could— [Aside] I can't tell her! [He walks up-stage two or three steps.]
SYLVETTE. Well, if you have nothing to say, why not keep still?
PASQUINOT. [Angrily] Keep still? Nothing to say? Do you imagine that everything just happened? How do you think people could come into my park through the iron gates?
BERGAMIN. Do you imagine for one instant that young ladies are carried off like that nowadays?
SYLVETTE. Do I—? What are you saying?
BERGAMIN. That will do! It is high time you knew the truth. I tell you, the victory was on the side of the old men!