MAN. How so?
MARQ. I have just heard that we are to be sent to-morrow to the castle of Valencay.
MAN. The devil!
MARQ. As “guests of France,” our host feels that he must provide better lodgings for us.
MAN. Safer ones, you mean.
MARQ. I warned you that your zeal for Ferdinand would lead us to prison.
MAN. Long live his Majesty, Ferdinand the VII!
MARQ. And Mariana must share our prison.
MAN. Better that than freedom with others.
MARQ. You talk like a youth. Mariana has French blood in her veins.