Arg. Ah! I have on my mind all those diseases that I don’t understand, those....
SCENE X.—ARGAN, BÉRALDE, TOINETTE (dressed as a doctor).
Toi. Allow me, Sir, to come and pay my respects to you, and to offer you my small services for all the bleedings and purging you may require.
Arg. I am much obliged to you, Sir. (To Béralde) Toinette herself, I declare!
Toi. I beg you will excuse me one moment, Sir. I forgot to give a small order to my servant.
SCENE XI.—ARGAN, BÉRALDE.
Arg. Would you not say that this is really Toinette?
Ber. It is true that the resemblance is very striking. But it is not the first time that we have seen this kind of thing, and history is full of those freaks of nature.
Arg. For my part, I am astonished, and....