CHACHO. What are you so ill-humored about? For the last two days you have been intolerable.
OSSEP. If I could unbosom myself to you and show you my heart, you would comprehend what the cause of it is.
CHACHO. God protect you from all evil!
OSSEP. Am I not right? Tell me yourself! This is not the time for card-playing. Why have they come, then? If they wished to congratulate us, they could come separately. How does it happen that they all thought of us at once? Perhaps each has sent word to the other that Salome has betrothed her daughter and they have all taken advantage of the opportunity to come. Of course only for the sake of those damned cards! This one or that one has probably been invited by her [
pointing to Salome
]. She sent word to them, "Come to us, I pray! X and Z are already here." [
To Salome
:] Say, isn't that so?
SALOME. What nonsense he talks! Ought they not to know at your uncle's house that we have betrothed our daughter? I was obliged to give them some information about it, was I not?
OSSEP. And to whom beside?