Don Fregose
Do not end so charming a celebration, senora, by a burst of anger
which I do not deserve.

Faustine
Was Monipodio, through whom you learn everything that goes on in
Barcelona, under my windows last night, or was he not? Answer me on
your honor as a gentleman.

Don Fregose
He might have been in the neighborhood to prevent our gamesters from
being attacked on their way home.

Faustine
This is the evasive stratagem of an old general! I must know the
truth. If you have deceived me I will never see you again so long as I
live!

(She leaves him.)


SCENE FIFTH.


Don Fregose (alone)
Oh, why cannot I give up the sight, the voice of this woman! She
delights me even in her very anger, and I love to call forth her
reproaches, that I may listen to her words.