"You have broken your engagement with Don Emile?"
"This very morning."
"If that is the case, I can understand your game with the knife."
"With all respect to you, señor, you do not understand it at all."
"Bah! Don Emile, in dismissing you, has given each of you a pretty good sum. Naturally, you have played while waiting for me, and thence the wound on the cheek."
"Well, señor, you are not at all right: although there is some truth in what you say, you have nevertheless made a serious mistake, which it is my duty to correct."
"Well, let us have it. I am all ears."
"Well, Don Emile has certainly dismissed us; he offered each of us four ounces, which he owed us for a month's salary."
"Of course you accepted it?"
"That is where you are wrong, señor. We refused it."