General, I wish you good-day. (The
General takes up a newspaper and waves his hand in greeting.) Ah! Here
is my adversary of yesterday's game. Have you come to take your
revenge, doctor?
Vernon
No, I came to take some tea.
Godard
Ah! I see you keep up the custom of the English, Russians and Chinese.
Pauline
Would you prefer some coffee?
Godard
No, no; allow me to have some tea; I will, for once, deviate from my
every-day custom. Moreover, you have your luncheon at noon, I see, and
a cup of coffee with cream would take away my appetite for that meal.
And then the English, the Russians and the Chinese are not entirely
incorrect in taste.
Vernon
Tea, sir, is an excellent thing.
Godard
Yes, when it is good.
Pauline
This is caravan tea.
Gertrude
Doctor, have you seen the papers? (To Pauline) Go and talk to M. de
Rimonville, my daughter, I, myself, will make tea.
Godard
Perhaps Mlle. De Grandchamp likes my conversation no better than my
person?
Pauline
You are mistaken, sir.
The General
Godard--
Pauline
Should you do me the favor of no longer seeking me in marriage, you
would still possess in my eyes qualities of sufficient brilliancy to
captivate the young ladies Boudeville, Clinville, Derville, etc.
Godard
That is enough, mademoiselle. Ah! How you do ridicule an unfortunate
lover, in spite of his income of forty thousand francs! The longer I
stay here, the more I regret it.
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