Pan. A dandified fool!
Ben. Courteous——
Pan. Too much so. The fellow agrees with every one.
Ben. He would be a son-in-law quite after your own heart. I would, but——
Pan. Son-in-law, be hanged! If you don’t look out you will make me use language I shall regret!
Ben. Well, don’t get angry.... Every one believes that he is going to marry your daughter.
Pan. Then he may whistle for her. My Elisa’s husband ought to be a young man with brains; and this Galanti of yours is a fool.
Ben. Well, not quite that.
Pan. He is! I want a man of character, and this jackanapes is nothing but a weather-cock!
Vittorio Bersezio.