forced you to seek refuge in heaven! I cannot stand up
against that. (He weeps.)

Marie
But by promising to enter a convent, I obtained my father's permission
to come here. I wish in bidding you farewell to bring you hope. Here
are the savings of a young girl, of your sister, which I have kept
against the day when all would forsake you.

Fontanares
And what care I for glory, for fortune, for life itself, without you?

Marie
Accept the gift which is all that the woman who intends to be your
wife can and ought to offer. If I feel that you are unhappy and in
distress, hope will forsake me in my retirement, and I shall die,
uttering a last prayer for you!

Quinola (to Marie)
Let him play the proud man, we may save him in spite of himself. Do
you know it is for this purpose that I am passing myself off as his
grandfather?

(Marie gives her purse to Quinola.)

Lothundiaz (to Don Ramon)
So you do not think much of him?

Don Ramon
Oh, no, he is an artisan, who knows nothing and who doubtless stole
his secret in Italy.

Lothundiaz
I have always doubted him, and it seems I was right in refusing him my
daughter in marriage.

Don Ramon
He would bring her to beggary. He has squandered five thousand
sequins, and has gone into debt three thousand in eight months,
without attaining any result! Ah! He is a contrast with his
grandfather. There's a philosopher of the first rank for you!
Fontanares will have to work hard to catch up with him. (He points to
Quinola.)

Lothundiaz
His grandfather?

Quinola
Yes, senor, my name of Fontanares was changed to that of Fontanaresi.

Lothundiaz
And you are Pablo Fontanaresi?

Quinola
Yes, Pablo himself.

Lothundiaz
And you are rich?

Quinola
Opulent.

Lothundiaz
That delights me, senor. I suppose that now you will pay me the two
thousand sequins which you borrowed from my father?

Quinola
Certainly, if you can show me my signature, I am ready to pay the
bond.

Marie (after a conversation with Fontanares)
You will accept this--will you not--as a means of securing your
triumph, for is not our happiness staked on that?

Fontanares
To think that I am dragging down this pearl into the gulf which is
yawning to receive me.

(Quinola and Monipodio depart.)

SCENE FIFTEENTH

The same persons and Sarpi.

Sarpi (to Lothundiaz)
You here, Senor Lothundiaz? And your daughter too?

Lothundiaz
I promised that she should come her to sa