PED. Certainly nothing.
MAN. Very well then. I do not believe it possible for me to win her, but it will be a satisfaction to have outwitted Durand.
PED. (handing him a pencil and paper upon which he has been writing.) Will you sign this?
MAN. My word is sufficient.
PED. Certainly. Yet as a matter of business, I prefer to have your signature.
MAN. I do not believe anything will come of it. (signs)
PED. Your marriage will come of it. But there is no time to lose. Come with me. (exeunt; night has come on, the moon is rising; enter Jean)
JEAN. Dellonne is on watch. I’ll—Why, Beluche! (enter Beluche)
BEL. I could not leave without asking you once more to come with me.
JEAN. How leave? Have you resigned from the army?