Scene IV
Marion, Duke de Bellegarde
MARION (going toward Duke de Bellegarde).
Here you are captain, my lord duke.
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
’Tis you,
My beauty! [Bowing.
Speak! What does my queen desire?
Marion.
To see the King.
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
When?
Marion.
Now!
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
This is short notice!
Why?
Marion.
For something!
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (bursting into a laugh).
We will send for him!
How she goes on!
Marion.
Then you refuse me?
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
Nay!
Am I not yours? Have we refused each other
Anything?
Marion.
That’s very well, my lord!
When shall I see the King?
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
After the Duke.
I promise you shall see him when he passes
Through this hall. But while waiting, talk with me!
Ah, little woman, are we good? In black?
Lady-in-waiting you might be. You used
To laugh so much.
Marion.
I don’t laugh now.
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
Indeed!
I think she’s weeping! Marion! You?
MARION (wiping her eyes: with firm tone).
My lord,
I want to see his Majesty at once!
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
For what?
Marion.
Just Heaven! For—
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE.
Is it against
The Cardinal?
Marion.
It is!
DUKE DE BELLEGARDE (opening the gallery for her).
Please enter here.
I put the discontented all in there;
Do not come out before the signal, please.
[Marion enters; he shuts door.
I would have run the risk for my old friend.
It costs no more to do it for them both.
[The hall is gradually filled with Courtiers; they talk together. Duke de Bellegarde goes from one to the other. L’Angely enters.