SCENE EIGHTEENTH
The same persons and Quinola.
Quinola
Sir!
Fontanares
And you also have betrayed me; you!
Quinola Off goes Monipodio, wafted towards Africa with recommendations on his hands and feet.
Fontanares
What of that?
Quinola Under the pretext of robbing you, I have concealed in a cellar a second machine, for I took care that two should be made, while we only paid for one.
Fontanares Thus it is that a true friend renders despair impossible. (He embraces Quinola.) (To Fregose) My lord, write to the king and build, overlooking the harbor, an amphitheatre for two hundred thousand spectators; in ten days I will fulfill my promise, and Spain shall behold a ship propelled by steam in the face of wind and waves. I will wait until there is a storm that I may show how I can prevail against it.
Faustine (to Quinola)
You have manufactured a machine—
Quinola
No, I have manufactured two, as a provision against ill-luck.