(Exeunt Valère and La Vallée.)
SCENE VIII.——ANGÉLIQUE (alone).
While my husband is absent, I will just go round to a ball given by one of our neighbours. I shall be back before him, for he is somewhere drinking; he will not even know that I am gone out. The wretched knave always leaves me alone at home, as if I were his dog. (Exit Angélique.)
SCENE IX.——LE BARBOUILLÉ.
I knew that I should master that brute of a doctor and his stupid doctrine. Devil take the ignorant ass! I soon brought all his science to the ground. I must now go and see if our good wife has prepared anything for my supper. (Exit.)
SCENE X.——ANGÉLIQUE.
How unlucky! I went too late, the party was over. I arrived just as everybody was leaving. But never mind, it shall be for another time. I will go home as if nothing was the matter. Bless me! the door is locked; Cathau! Cathau!
SCENE XI.——LE BARBOUILLÉ (at the window), ANGÉLIQUE.
Bar. "Cathau! Cathau!" Well! what is the matter with Cathau? And where do you come from at this time of night, and in such weather?
Ang. Where I come from? Just open the door, and I will tell you.