Pierquin Yes, he has an old aunt somewhere about there! A good woman called Bourdillac, who scrapes along on some six hundred francs a year, but to whom he gives the title of Marchioness of Bourdillac. He pretends that her health is delicate and that she has a yearly income of forty thousand francs.
Mercadet
Thank you. Good-evening—
Pierquin
Good-evening. (goes out)
Mercadet (ringing)
Justin!
Justin
Did you call, sir?
Mercadet
Ask M. de la Brive to speak with me for a moment. (Justin goes out.)
Mercadet Here is a windfall of twenty-three thousand francs! We shall be able to arrange things famously for Julie's marriage.
SCENE EIGHTH
Mercadet, De la Brive and Justin.
De la Brive (to Justin, handing him a letter)
Here, deliver this letter. And this is for yourself.