Pauline
Do you wish to see me die?
Marguerite
Die!—Oh, mademoiselle, I will at once obey your wishes.
Pauline Marguerite, tell M. Ferdinand to bring me my year's allowance; bid him come this moment.
Marguerite
He was under your windows when I came in.
Pauline (aside) Under my windows!—doubtless he thought that he would never see me again.—Poor Ferdinand!
(Exit Marguerite.)
SCENE FIFTH
Pauline (alone) When I think of leaving my father's house, it at once comes home to me that my father will seek me many a day, far and wide. With what treasures love ought to repay me, for such sacrifices, for I abandon to follow Ferdinand my country, my father, and my home! But at any rate, this shameless woman will lose him without hope of restoration! Moreover, I shall return! The doctor and M. Ramel will win for me forgiveness from my father. I think I hear the step of Ferdinand! —Yes, it is actually he!
SCENE SIXTH
Pauline and Ferdinand.