Fregose
Ah! You acknowledge that!
Faustine Your friendship to me is so great that you have been the first to learn my secret.
Fregose Senora! Yes, love is madness! I have surrendered to you more than myself! Alas, I wish I had the world to offer you. You evidently are not aware that your picture gallery alone cost me almost all my fortune.
Faustine
Paquita!
Fregose
And that I would surrender to you even my honor.
SCENE NINTH
The same persons and Paquita.
Faustine (to Paquita) Tell my steward that the pictures of my gallery must immediately be carried to the house of Don Fregose.
Fregose
Paquita, do not deliver that order.
Faustine The other day, they tell me, the Queen Catherine de Medici sent an order to Diana of Poitiers to deliver up what jewels she had received from Henry II.; Diana sent them back melted into an ingot. Paquita, fetch the jeweler.