GR.-RE. Go on.
ERAS. (Showing another letter). This is another of your letters; it shall share the same fate.
MAR. (To Lucile). Be firm.
LUC. (Tearing another letter). I should be sorry to keep back one of them.
GR.-RE. (To Éraste). Do not let her have the last word.
MAR. (To Lucile). Hold out bravely to the end.
LUC. Well, there are the rest.
ERAS. Thank Heaven, that is all! May I be struck dead if I do not keep my word!
LUC. May it confound me if mine be vain.
ERAS. Farewell, then.