ent with a happy mind;
either I am his, or I must live for God alone.

Lothundiaz
I believe he is a sorcerer.

Quinola
This young maiden restores to me my love for womankind.

Faustine (to Sarpi, the viceroy and Avaloros)
Can we not conquer him, in spite of all?

Avaloros
I shall try it.

Sarpi (to Faustine)
All is not lost. (To Lothundiaz) Take your daughter home; she will
soon be obedient to you.

Lothundiaz
God grant it! Come my daughter. (Exeunt.)

SCENE FOURTH

Faustine, Fregose, Avaloros, Fontanares, Quinola and Monipodio.

Avaloros
I have studied you well, young man, and you have a great heart--a
heart firm as steel. Steel will always be the master of gold. Let us
frankly form a copartnership; I will pay your debts, buy up all that
has been sold, give you and Quinola five thousand ducats, and, at my
instance, the viceroy will be willing to forget your freedom with him.

Fontanares
If, in my distress, I have ever failed in respect towards you, senor,
I beg you will pardon me.

Don Fregose
That is quite sufficient, senor. Don Fregose does not easily take
offence.

Faustine
You have done well, my lord.

Avaloros
Thus you see, young man, that tempest is succeeded by calm, and at
present all things smile upon you. The next thing for us to do is to
unite, you and I, in fulfilling your promises to the king.

Fontanares
I care not for fortune excepting for one reason; shall I be enabled to
wed Marie Lothundiaz?

Don Fregose
Is she the only woman in the world you love?

Fontanares
The only one.

(Faustine and Avaloros talk together.)

Don Fregose
You never told me that before. Henceforth, you may count on me, young
man; I am your steadfast ally. (Exit.)

Monipodio
They are coming to terms; we are ruined. I shall take myself off to
France with the duplicate machine. (Exit.)

SCENE FIFTH

Quinola, Fontanares, Faustine and Avaloros.

Faustine (to Fontanares)
Come, now; I also bear no malice, and you must come to the banquet I
am giving.

Fontanares
Senora, your first kindness concealed treachery.

Faustine
Like all those lofty dreamers, who enrich humanity with their
inventions, you know neither women, nor the world.

Fontanares (aside)
I have scarcely eight days left. (To Quinola) I am going to make use
of her.

Quinola
Do so, as you make use of me.

Fontanares
I will come to your house, senora.

Fausti