Monseigneur. Beppo!
Beppo. Let me but reach thee, thou coward! I will split thee!
Monseigneur (screams). Beppo! Beppo! (As the Bishop hurries in from the corridor.)
Bishop. Children! Children! Quarrelling? With daggers drawn? (Severely.) Beppo?
Beppo (rather alarmed, explains). } I was only just showing him—(Together.)
Monseigneur (crying with rage). } He was teasing me!—teasing me.
Bishop (angrily). Beppo!
Beppo. I will not do it again. It was only to amuse him.
Bishop (aside, as he takes Beppo by the ear). Senseless! Dost not know he is dying?