GARC. Oh! how double-faced she is! how well she knows to dissimulate!
But all means for escape will fail you. Cast your eyes here, and
recognize your writing.

[Footnote: The lines, "Heavens! what is the meaning of this?" till "and
recognize your writing" have been employed again by Molière in the
_Misanthrope_, Act iv., Scene 3, (see vol. II). The misanthrope Alceste
has also in his hand the written proofs of the faithlessness of the
object of his love: but his suspicions are well founded, whilst those of
Don Garcia are inspired only by jealousy.]

Without having seen the other part of this letter, it is easy enough to
discover for whom you employ this style.

ELV. And this is the cause of your perturbation of spirits?

GARC. Do you not blush on beholding this writing?

ELV. Innocence is not accustomed to blush.

GARC. Here indeed we see it oppressed. You disown this letter because it
is not signed.

ELV. Why should I disown it, since I wrote it?

[Footnote: The words, "And this is the cause" until "since I wrote it,"
are, with a few slight alterations, found also in the _Misanthrope_, Act
iv., Scene 3.]

GARC. It is something that you are frank enough to own your handwriting;