Pepito. This is too much.
Servant. I thought——
Pepito. You had no business to think anything.
Servant. He is only passing. There is a cab waiting, so——
Pepito. What are we to do?
Mercedes. Let him come in. [Exit servant.]
Pepito. I'll give him his dismissal.
Mercedes. Do it cleverly.
SCENE IV
Doña Mercedes, Pepito, and Ernest. Doña Mercedes seated in the arm-chair, Pepito standing, and Ernest behind, whom neither salute nor look at.