Fregose
And I will send him to give you the thanks.
Faustine
Do it! And learn how much I love you.
(Exit Don Fregose.)
SCENE ELEVENTH
Faustine (alone)
And yet so many women wish that they were men.
SCENE TWELFTH
Faustine, Paquita, Lothundiaz and Marie.
Paquita
Senora, here are Senor Lothundiaz and his daughter. (Exit.)
SCENE THIRTEENTH
The same persons, excepting Paquita.
Lothundiaz
Ah! senora, you have turned my palace into a kingdom!
Faustine (to Marie)
My child, seat yourself by me. (To Lothundiaz) Be seated.
Lothundiaz
You are very kind, senora; but permit me to go and see that famous
gallery, which is spoken of throughout Catalonia.
(Faustine bows assent and Lothundiaz leaves the room.)
SCENE FOURTEENTH
Faustine and Marie.
Faustine
My child, I love you and have learned of the position in which you
stand. Your father wishes you to marry my cousin Sarpi, while you are
in love with Fontanares.
Marie
And have been for five years, senora.
Faustine
At sixteen one knows not what it is to love.
Marie
What does that matter, if I love him?
Faustine
With us, sweet girl, love is but self-devotion.
Marie
I will devote myself to him, senora.
Faustine
What! Would you give him up if that were for his interest?
Marie
That would be to die, but yet my life is wholly his.
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