CLÉONTE: Get out, traitor, and don't come to amuse me with your treacherous words.
NICOLE: Is this how you receive me . . .
CLÉONTE: Get out, I tell you, and go tell your faithless mistress that she will never again in her life deceive the too trusting Cléonte.
NICOLE: What caprice is this? My dear Covielle, explain a little what you are trying to say.
COVIELLE: Your dear Covielle, little hussy? Go, quickly, out of my sight, villainess , and leave me in peace.
NICOLE: What! You come to me too. . .
COVIELLE: Out of my sight, I tell you, and never speak to me again.
NICOLE: My word! What fly has bitten those two? Let's go tell this pretty story to my mistress.
SCENE IX (Cléonte, Covielle)
CLÉONTE: What! Treat a lover in this way? And a lover who is the most faithful and passionate of lovers?