Chèr Alexandre
! do you really love me so much?
ALEXANDER. I cannot tell you at all how much I love you. Right at our first meeting I fell in love with you!
NATO. I don't believe it! I don't believe it! All young men talk so!
ALEXANDER. Ha! ha! ha! Do you think I am like them? With them the tongues have nothing to do with the heart; but my tongue speaks what is here!
[Strikes himself on the breast.
NATO [
ironically
]. I know! I know! If I had no dowry you would not marry me.
ALEXANDER. Nato dear, you wrong me!