PRESIDENT. Sit down.
MME. D’AMERGUEUX. I think M. Calvon lets their counsel talk too much.
M. DE FORGEAU. He’s rather afraid of him.
PRESIDENT. Tupin, stand up.
TUPIN [a man of mean and wretched appearance] After you, Calvon.
PRESIDENT. What’s that?
TUPIN. I said, ‘After you, Calvon.’ That’s your name, isn’t it?
PRESIDENT. I warn you I shall not stand the least insolence from you.
TUPIN. I said, ‘After you, Calvon,’ just as you said, ’Stand up Tupin.’ If that’s insolence, I didn’t begin it.