Trim
I will avenge you better than anyone else.
Countess
Get out, I tell you—I have a more sure way to punish this infidel.
Trim
That's what I'm afraid of.
Walter
And, what have I to fear?
Countess
Everything. I am going to marry you, in spite of yourself.
Walter
Marry me! Ah, Madame, you wouldn't be as cruel as that.
Countess Yes, perjurer! I have just asked you from your father. I offered to take you without a penny. My proposition was agreeable and he accepted it, and that is enough for me. Goodbye, sir. Think about it. But, get it in your head that I am to be your wife. I have sworn it—it will be—and I am the one who tells you so,—and I am your very humble servant.
(Exit Countess.)
Trim
She's woman enough to do just as she said—at the very least.
Walter
What a mess the crazy old fool has put me in.