LAF. Splendid!
DAR. And here are these royal Spanish merchants. For years they have been striving to at least compromise with him, and now to-day, mad with delight because they have at last received word from him that he will see them!
LAF. (starts.) Has he sent them that word?
DAR. Don Manuel d’Acosta has just a while ago engaged a room for the meeting.
LAF. Don Manuel d’Acosta! (aside) And I looking for them in Spain!
DAR. (anxiously.) You don’t think Lafitte will disappoint them?
LAF. (grimly.) No. I don’t think Lafitte will disappoint them. When do they expect him?
DAR. To-day at two o’clock. Don Manuel—
LAF. Do you know whether the Marquis d’Acosta live in New Orleans?