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 SCENE III

Doña Mercedes, Pepito, and servant.

. Don Ernest.

. He dares

. This is too much.

. I thought

. You had no business to think anything.

. He is only passing. There is a cab waiting, so

. What are we to do?

. Let him come in.

. I'll give him his dismissal.

. Do it cleverly.

SCENE IV

''Doña Mercedes, Pepito, and Ernest. Doña Mercedes seated in the arm-chair, Pepito standing, and Ernest behind, whom neither salute nor look at.''

. [Aside.] Hostile silence, anger, and contempt. Through no fault of my own, I now appear to them a prodigy of evil and insolence, and they all despise me.

. Listen to me, Ernest. [Turns round to him and speaks in a hard voice.]

. Well.

. I have to tell you

. To go away, perhaps. 70