DORANTE: You're fooling yourself, Madame, to imagine so many
difficulties, and the experience you had with one marriage doesn't
determine anything for others.
DORIMENE: Finally I always come back to this. The expenses that I
see you go to for me disturb me for two reasons: one is that they
get me more involved than I would like; and the other is that I am
sure -- meaning no offense -- that you cannot do this without
financially inconveniencing yourself, and I certainly don't want
that.
DORANTE: Ah! Madame, they are trifles, and it isn't by that . . .
DORIMENE: I know what I'm talking about; and among other gifts, the
diamond you forced me to take is worth ...
DORANTE: Oh! Madame, mercy, don't put any value on a thing that my
love finds unworthy of you, and allow ... Here's the master of the
house.
ACT THREE
SCENE XVI (Monsieur Jourdain, Dorimene, Dorante, Lackey)
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: (After having made two bows, finding himself too
near Dorimene) A little farther, Madame.
DORIMENE: What?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: One step, if you please.
DORIMENE: What is it?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Step back a little for the third.
DORANTE: Madame, Monsieur Jourdain is very knowledgeable.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Madame, it is a very great honor to me to be
fortunate enough to be so happy as to have the joy that you should
have had the goodness to accord me the graciousness of doing me the
honor of honoring me with the favor of your presence; and, if I
also had the merit to merit a merit such as yours, and if Heaven .
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