LUC. Mother!
MRS. JOUR. Leave me alone, you are a bad girl.
MR. JOUR. (to MRS. JOURDAIN). What! you scold her because she is obedient to me?
MRS. JOUR. Certainly; she belongs to me as much as she belongs to you.
COV. (to MRS. JOURDAIN). Madam.
MRS. JOUR. What business have you to speak to me, you?
COV. One word.
MRS. JOUR. I'll have nothing to do with your word.
COV. (to MR. JOURDAIN). Sir, if she will only listen to a word in private, I promise you to make her consent to all you want.
MRS. JOUR. I will never consent to it.