SCENE III
Don Julian, Don Severo, and Pepito.
D. Severo. You here?
Pepito [Aside.] By Jove, I see they know all about it. [Aloud.] We are all here. How do you do, uncle? How do, father? [Aside.] Easy. They know what's in the wind. [Aloud.] What brings you?—but I suppose you are looking for Ernest.
D. Severo. What else could bring us here?
D. Julian. I daresay you know what this madman is up to?
Pepito. What he's up to! Well, yes—rather. I know as much as another.
D. Severo. And it's to-morrow?
Pepito. No, to-morrow he is going away, so it must be to-day.
D. Julian. [Surprised.] What do you say?
Pepito. That's what Pepe Uceda told me last night at the club. He is Nebreda's second, so he ought to know. But why do you stare so oddly? Didn't you know
D. Julian. [Hastily covering his brother's movement.] Everything.
D. Severo. We
D. Julian. [Aside.] Hold your tongue, Severo.—He starts to-morrow, and to-day he stakes his life—and we are here, of course, to prevent both, the duel and the departure. [Don Julian makes it evident that he is only sounding Pepito's knowledge of facts, and that he is only aware of the pending departure.]
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