MAN. But Mariana’s fortune—
PED. Will be yours.
MAN. I cannot promise that.
PED. Then I cannot risk what I had thought of.
MAN. It would be useless. I have no chance.
PED. Certainly Durand seems to have left you none.
MAN. Damn him!
PED. He was not even ruffled by Mariana’s confession of your desperate wooing.
MAN. I’ll kill him!
PED. (amused) As for your threats, he did not consider them.