Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_A large and very elegant drawing-room, looking out on a garden. French window with balcony at the lower extremity to the right. To the left a conservatory. To the right a door opening into the apartment of_ LIONNETTE. _To the left a door opening into the apartment of_ JOHN.
_A large and very elegant drawing-room, looking out on a garden. French window with balcony at the lower extremity to the right. To the left a conservatory. To the right a door...
2. SCENE I.Not at all; I live about two steps from here, and every evening, after my dinner, I take a short walk. Only, I am in a frock-coat, and you have friends.
3. SCENE II.Tell me, Countess, are we, yes or no, Godler the ever youthful, Nourvady the ever grave, and I, Trévelé, the ever jesting--are we, yes or no, invited by you, Countess, the ever...
4. SCENE III.I assure you that Nourvady is a personage apart. Listen now; let us eat all the cakes, drink all the lemonade, and during that time you can solve the enigma, for at length you o...
5. SCENE IV.6. SCENE V.JOHN, _standing alone, lays his hand on the top of a chair; then he pulls off his cravat and loosens the collar of his shirt, as if he were suffocating and wished to breathe mor...
7. ACT II._A small drawing-room, in great taste, combined with much luxury. General arrangements of the room rather adapted for repose and sleep--for tête-à-tête--than for general convers...
8. SCENE I.LIONNETTE_, veiled, enters at the left; draws back the screen, stops, looks around her; goes slowly to the door at the back, which she opens and shuts again, after having looked...
9. SCENE II.The fact is that you have discovered the only way to compel me,--an infamous way, Sir. (_While speaking she has taken off the veils that covered her face, and thrown them on the...
10. SCENE III._By an involuntary movement_ LIONNETTE _places herself on the side opposite to that on which she was with_ NOURVADY. _In this way they become separated._ NOURVADY _walks in fron...
11. SCENE I.Then, just as I was going to start for my sister's house, and everybody thought me gone, for I had no wish to sleep in this house, suddenly I was seized with the idea of conceal...
12. SCENE II.Your servant, gentlemen! (_To_ JOHN.) I have received a note from the Countess, who begged me to go at once to the Commissary of Police and take a copy of the accusation, as the...
13. SCENE III.I prefer to receive you here, my dear Mr. Richard, as we shall be left alone and uninterrupted. My room, and my private reception-room, are in disorder; they are packing my trun...
14. SCENE IV.The fact is that you were hurt at the way in which the Commissary entered; and your millions were powerless. As to me, I am quite myself again. You love me still?
15. SCENE V.Do not leave me any more. I will explain all to you. I understand, I see it all clearly now! I am innocent, I swear to you! I swear to you! I swear to you! We will live modestly...