Godard (aside)
Is it possible I have a rival? (Aloud) No one, mademoiselle, gives up
the prospect of happiness without a struggle.
Pauline
Do you still continue in this strain? I must leave you, sir.
Godard
Thank you, mademoiselle. (Aside) So much for your sarcasm.
Pauline
Come sir, you are rich, and nature has given you a fine person; you
are so well educated and so witty that you will have no difficulty in
finding some young person richer and prettier than I am.
Godard
How can that be when one is in love?
Pauline
Well sir, that is the very point.
Godard (aside)
She is in love with someone; I must find out who it is. (Aloud)
Mademoiselle, will you at least permit me to feel that I am not in
disgrace and that I may stay here a few days?
Pauline
My father will answer you on that score.
Gertrude (coming forward to Godard)
Well, how are things going?
Godard
A blunt refusal, without even a hope of her relenting; her heart is
evidently already occupied.
Gertrude (to Godard)
Her heart occupied? This child has been brought up by me, and I know
to the contrary; and besides that, no one ever comes here. (Aside)
This youth has roused in me suspicions which pierce my heart like a
dagger. (To Godard) Why don't you ask her if such is the case?
Godard
How could I ask her anything? At my first word of jealous suspicion,
she resented my curiosity.
Gertrude
Well, I shall have no hesitation in questioning her.
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