Briquet
Not a sou.
Mancini
Then I'll take away Consuelo—that's all——
Briquet
Your daily threat!
Mancini
Yes, my threat! And you would do the same, if you were as shamefully hard up as I am. Now look here, you know as well as I do that I have to live up to my name somehow, keep up the family reputation. Just because the tide of ill-fortune which struck my ancestors compelled me to make my daughter, the Countess Veronica, a bareback rider—to keep us from starving—do you understand—you heartless idiot!
Briquet
You chase the girls too much! Some day you'll land in jail, Mancini!