Arg. For my part, I should have been deceived this time, and sworn that the two were but one.
SCENE XIV.—ARGAN, BÉRALDE, TOINETTE (as a doctor).
Toi. Sir, I beg your pardon with all my heart.
Arg. (to Béralde). It is wonderful.
Toi. You will not take amiss, I hope, the curiosity I feel to see such an illustrious patient; and your reputation, which reaches the farthest ends of the world, must be my excuse for the liberty I am taking.
Arg. Sir, I am your servant.
Toi. I see, Sir, that you are looking earnestly at me. What age do you think I am?
Arg. I should think twenty-six or twenty-seven at the utmost.
Toi. Ah! ah! ah! ah! ah! I am ninety years old.
Arg. Ninety years old!