Ah!

Fontanares
Will you accept for your son-in-law the Duke of Neptunado, grandee of
Spain, and favorite of the king?

(Lothundiaz pretends to look for the Duke of Neptunado.)

Marie
But it is he himself, dear father.

Lothundiaz
You, whom I have known since you were two foot high, whose father used
to sell cloth--do you take me for a fool?


SCENE TWELFTH

The same persons, Quinola and Dona Lopez.


Quinola
Who said fool?

Fontanares
As a present upon our wedding, I will procure for you and for my wife
a patent of nobility; we will permit you to settle her fortune by
entail upon your son--

Marie