GER. Let us go home; we shall talk more comfortably at home.
HYA. (showing ZERBINETTE). Ah! father, I beg of you the favour not to part me from this charming young lady. She has noble qualities, which will be sure to make you like her when you know her.
GER. What! do you wish me to take to my house a girl with whom your brother is in love, and who told me to my face so many insulting things?
ZER. Pray forgive me, Sir; I should not have spoken in that way if I had known who you were, and I only knew you by reputation.
GER. By reputation; what do you mean?
HYA. Father, I can answer for it that she is most virtuous, and that the love my brother has for her is pure.
GER. It is all very well. You would try now to persuade me to marry my son to her, a stranger, a street-girl!