Faustine You are right. (Aside) Better that I should hold in a balance the fortune of Fontanares. (To Avaloros) If you wish to keep your monopoly hold your tongue.
Avaloros There is nothing keeps a secret better than capital. (Aside) These women are disinterested until the day they fall in love. I must try to defeat her; she is beginning to cost me too much. (Exit.)
SCENE SEVENTH
Faustine and Quinola.
Faustine
Did you not tell me he was despondent?
Quinola
Everything is against him.
Faustine
But he knows how to wrestle with difficulties.
Quinola We have been for two years half drowned in difficulties; sometimes we have gone to the bottom and the gravel was pretty hard.
Faustine
But what force of character, what genius he has!
Quinola
You see, there, senora, the effects of love.