Cle. (aside to La Flèche). Has he been told who I am, and would you be capable of betraying me?
Sim. (to Cléante and La Flèche). Ah! you are in good time! But who told you to come here? (To Harpagon) It was certainly not I who told them your name and address; but I am of opinion that there is no great harm done; they are people who can be trusted, and you can come to some understanding together.
Har. What!
Sim. (showing Cléante). This is the gentleman who wants to borrow the fifteen thousand francs of which I have spoken to you.
Har. What! miscreant! is it you who abandon yourself to such excesses?
Cle. What! father! is it you who stoop to such shameful deeds?
(M. Simon runs away, and La Flèche hides himself.)
SCENE III.——HARPAGON, CLÉANTE.
Har. It is you who are ruining yourself by loans so greatly to be condemned!
Cle. So it is you who seek to enrich yourself by such criminal usury!