BERGAMIN. The witnesses! The devil!
WITNESSES. What—?
STRAFOREL. [In the midst of the tumult] My bill! Who is going to pay me? Ninety pistoles!
[Enter the GUESTS and three FIDDLERS, who play.]
BERGAMIN. What's all this? The guests? Music?
[The FIDDLERS continue their minuet.]
STRAFOREL. [To BERGAMIN] Well?
BERGAMIN. See Pasquinot.
STRAFOREL. [Reading] "For the purpose of bringing about a marriage—"
BERGAMIN. Well, there is to be no marriage! Therefore I owe you nothing!