Susan. It would be a greater miracle to see you honest.
Basil. Figaro is in search of him.
Susan. Then he is in search of the man who wishes most to injure him—yourself excepted.
Basil. It is strange, that a man should injure the Husband by obliging the Wife.
(The Count peeps from behind the great chair.)
Count. I shall hear, now, how well he pleads my cause.
Basil. For my part, Marriage being, of all serious things, the greatest Farce, I imagined—
Susan. All manner of wickedness.
Basil. That though you are obliged to fast to-day, you might be glad to feed to-morrow, grace being first duly said.
Susan. Be gone, and do not shock my ears with your vile principles.