D’Eglantiers. I’ll promise you that, but just open it.
[Maria opens the cupboard; D’Eglantiers hides the bonds inside it.]
Maria. I think, Captain, that packet must contain something more than reports and general orders!
D’Eglantiers. No, it really does not, by——
Maria. Well, I’ll believe you; so you need not swear about it. But it looked to me rather like bonds. [Locks the cupboard, and is about to put the key in her pocket, but D’Eglantiers prevents her.]
D’Eglantiers. Stop! I keep that key, do you hear?
Maria. Do you, sir? they’re bonds! Otherwise you would not be so much afraid of losing them!
D’Eglantiers. Yes, if that were true——
Maria. Then you wouldn’t be captain of a volunteer company, would you?
D’Eglantiers. No, certainly not!