Cashier. (To Percy, who has been trying to escape) Interpreter!
Percy. (Coming down-stage) Ye-es?
Officer. (To Percy) Find out what he wants?
Chanoine-Malherbe. (To Harry) Ah, M. l’Interprète!
Percy. Oui, oui.
Chanoine-Malherbe. Dites-lui que je me nomme Jean-Jacques Chanoine-Malherbe, que je viens de Paris pour trouver ma fille qui s’en est allée de chez moi avec un jeune homme, et——
Officer. What’s he say?
Percy. It’s a long story. Very complicated—hm—this gentleman before you is a—Frenchman.
Officer. I know that!
Percy. He came to London—just—just as Frenchmen do come to London.