POMPDEBILE (severely). Where have you been?
VIOLETTA. I, just now?
POMPDEBILE. Just now, when you should have been outside that door waiting breathlessly.
VIOLETTA. I was in the garden. Really, Pompy, you couldn't expect me to stay all day in that ridiculous pantry; and as for being breathless, it's quite impossible to be it unless one has been jumping or something.
POMPDEBILE. What were you doing in the garden?
VIOLETTA (laughing). Oh, it was too funny. I must tell you. I found a goat there who had a beard just like the Chancellor's—really it was quite remarkable, the resemblance—in other ways too. I took him by the horns and I looked deep into his eyes, and I said, "Chancellor, if you try to influence Pompy—"
POMPDEBILE (shouting). Don't call us Pompy.
VIOLETTA. Excuse me, Pomp—
(Checking herself.)
KNAVE. And yet I think I remember hearing of an emperor, a great emperor, named Pompey.