Madeleine. Don't feel too sorry for me. After all, I shall be free and almost happy.
Marcel. What resignation!
Madeleine. Only—
Marcel. Only what?
Madeleine. He is going to send you his seconds.
Marcel [gayly]. A duel? To-day? You're not serious?
Madeleine. I think he wants to kill you.
Marcel. But that affair was three years ago! Why, to begin with, he hasn't the right!
Madeleine. Because it was so long ago?
Marcel. Three years is three years.