DOM. Perfectly. Au revoir. (exit; enter Manuel.)
MAN. Just a word. You’d better make yourself secure with your lady-love. Otherwise, you may find that even with one fortune, you will be unable to get the other.
PED. What do you mean?
MAN. I noticed a very ardent young man with her a while ago, and I noticed that he kissed her quite possessingly.
PED. (grimly.) I have the young man under surveillance. (enter unperceived, Lizbette; she straightens a rug; Dominique repasses at back with a few ladies.) Is that the man? (Manuel and Lizbette look up stage.)
MAN. That’s the man.
PED. My stay in Barataria wasn’t profitless after all. I learned the pirate pass-word. (Lizbette, who had been on the point of going, stops; listens.)
MAN. Not much gain in that, I should say.
PED. Well, I used it a while ago as an experiment upon that ardent young man and the trap succeeded beautifully. He answered immediately.
MAN. Why didn’t you have him arrested?