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 SCENE III

Don Julian, Don Severo, and Pepito.

. You here?

[Aside.] By Jove, I see they know all about it. [Aloud.] We are all here. How do you do, uncle? How do, father? [Aside.] Easy. They know what's in the wind. [Aloud.] What brings you?—but I suppose you are looking for Ernest.

. What else could bring us here?

. I daresay you know what this madman is up to?

. What he's up to! Well, yes—rather. I know as much as another.

. And it's to-morrow?

. No, to-morrow he is going away, so it must be to-day.

. [Surprised.] What do you say?

. That's what Pepe Uceda told me last night at the club. He is Nebreda's second, so he ought to know. But why do you stare so oddly? Didn't you know

. [Hastily covering his brother's movement.] Everything.

. We

. [Aside.] Hold your tongue, Severo.—He starts to-morrow, and to-day he stakes his life—and we are here, of course, to prevent both, the duel and the departure. [Don Julian makes it evident that he is only sounding Pepito's knowledge of facts, and that he is only aware of the pending departure.] 45