Tell them I'll be back here soon.
SCENE XV (Dorimene, Dorante, Lackey)
LACKEY: Monsieur says that he'll be here very soon.
DORANTE: That's fine.
DORIMENE: I don't know, Dorante; I feel strange allowing you to
bring me to this house where I know no one.
DORANTE: Then where would you like, Madame, for me to express my
love with an entertainment, since you will allow neither your house
nor mine for fear of scandal?
DORIMENE: But you don't mention that every day I am gradually
preparing myself to receive too great proofs of your passion? As
good a defense as I have put up, you wear down my resistance, and
you have a polite persistence which makes me come gently to
whatever you like. The frequent visits began, declarations
followed, after them came serenades and amusements in their train,
and presents followed them. I withstood all that, but you don't
give up at all and step by step you are overcoming my resolve. As
for me, I can no longer answer for anything, and I believe that in
the end you will bring me to marriage, which I have so far
avoided.
DORANTE: My faith! Madame, you should already have come to it. You
are a widow, and you answer only to yourself. I am my own master
and I love you more than my life. Why shouldn't you be all my
happiness from today onward?
DORIMENE: Goodness! Dorante, for two people to live happily
together both of them need particular qualities; and two of the
most reasonable persons in the world often have trouble making a
union satisfactory to them both.
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