"You will have to employ another person."
"Yes, but without confiding in him. I have already found the person. Your husband is about to embark for Havana. When he returns, be will find a son here."
"Nora, Nora! there is no wickedness of which you are not capable!"
"I am capable of anything that may result in benefit to you."
"But to deceive a man like the count would be the most unpardonable of crimes!"
"Ismena, I have often heard you sing:
'Deceit, a faithful friend art thou;
'Tis truth that is our bane.
Pain without sickness she doth give;
Thou, sickness without pain.'
But to-day you appear to be more high flown than the poets themselves."
"But the text alludes to love quarrels."
"It is very applicable to everything else in life. As if you had never known the case I have suggested to be put into practice; and is it not a thousand times worse when combined with infidelity?"