t us go together then.

(_Exeunt_ VALERE _and_ LA VALLEE.)

SCENE VIII.--ANGELIQUE (_alone_).

While my husband is absent, I will just go round to a ball given by
one of our neighbours. I shall be back before him, for he is somewhere
drinking; he will not even know that I am gone out. The wretched knave
always leaves me alone at home, as if I were his dog. (_Exit_ ANGELIQUE.)

SCENE IX.--LE BARBOUILLE.

I knew that I should master that brute of a doctor and his stupid
doctrine. Devil take the ignorant ass! I soon brought all his science
to the ground. I must now go and see if our good wife has prepared
anything for my supper. (_Exit._)

SCENE X.--ANGELIQUE.

How unlucky! I went too late, the party was over. I arrived just as
everybody was leaving. But never mind, it shall be for another time. I
will go home as if nothing was the matter. Bless me! the door is
locked; Cathau! Cathau!

SCENE XI.--LE BARBOUILLE (_at the window_), ANGELIQUE.

BAR. "Cathau! Cathau!" Well! what is the matter with Cathau? And where
do you come from at this time of night, and in such weather?

ANG. Where I come from? Just open the door, and I will tell you.

BAR. Yes, you catch me! You may go and sleep where you come from; I
shall not open to a gad-about like you. What! alone at this time of
night! I don't know if it is fancy, but my forehead seems to me
already rougher by half.

ANG. Well, what do you mean by scolding me because I am alone? You
scold me if I have anybody near me; what am I to do?

BAR. Stop at home, give orders for the supper, take care of the
household, and of the children; but it is no use talking so much;
good-bye, good night, go to the devil and leave me in peace.

ANG. You won't open to me?

BAR. No. I shall not open to you.

ANG. Ah! my dear little husband, I beg of you open the door; do, my
darling little heart.

BAR. Ah! crocodile! Ah! dangerous serpent! you caress me to betray me.

ANG. Open, do open.

BAR. Farewell! _Vade retro, Satanas!_

ANG. What, you won't open.

BAR. No!

ANG. You have no pity for the wife who loves you so much?

BAR. No, I am inflexible. You have offended me, I am revengeful like
the very devil! that is to say plainly that I am inexorable.

ANG. Do you know that if you push me too far, and put me in a passion,
I may do something which will make you repent your unkindness.

BAR. And what will you do, dear little vixen?

ANG. I declare that if you do not o