Scene III Valère, Isabella, Sganarelle
VAL. (Coming out quickly). Yes, yes; I will this night make some effort to speak to… Who is there?
ISA. (To Valère). No noise, Valère; I have forestalled you; I am Isabella.
SGAN. (Aside). You lie, minx; it is not she. She is too staunch to those laws of honour which you forsake; you are falsely assuming her name and voice.
ISA. (To Valère). But unless by the holy bonds of matrimony…
VAL. Yes; that is my only purpose; and here I make you a solemn promise that to-morrow I will go wherever you please to be married to you.
SGAN. (Aside). Poor deluded fool!
VAL. Enter with confidence. I now defy the power of your duped Argus; before he can tear you from my love, this arm shall stab him to the heart a thousand times.