Raoul (aside) Ah! Vautrin! I trust myself to you! (Aloud) Inez, you do not know how great is the impression your words make upon me; they give me power to bear the overwhelming rapture your presence causes—Come then, let us be happy!
SCENE EIGHTH The same persons and the Marquis de Montsorel.
The footman (announcing a visitor)
Monsieur le Marquis de Montsorel.
Raoul (aside) Ah! That name recalls me to myself. (To Inez) Whatever happens, Inez, do not judge my conduct until I have myself given an account of it, and believe at the present moment that I am carried along by an invincible fatality.
Inez
Raoul, I cannot understand you; but I shall trust you always.
The Marquis (aside) Again this little gentleman here! (He salutes Inez.) I thought you were with your mother, mademoiselle, and I never dreamed my visit would be so inopportune. Be good enough to excuse me—
Inez
I beg that you will not go; there is no one but ourselves here, for
Monsieur Raoul has been accepted by my family.
The Marquis
Will Monsieur Raoul de Frescas, then, accept my congratulations?
Raoul Your congratulations? I accept them (they shake hands) in the same spirit as that in which they are offered.
Inez (to Raoul) Manage that he go away, and do you remain. (To the Marquis) My mother requires me for a few moments, and I will return with her.