SCENE III
Doña Mercedes, Pepito, and servant.
Servant. Don Ernest.
Mercedes. He dares
Pepito. This is too much.
Servant. I thought
Pepito. You had no business to think anything.
Servant. He is only passing. There is a cab waiting, so
Pepito. What are we to do?
Mercedes. Let him come in. [Exit servant.]
Pepito. I'll give him his dismissal.
Mercedes. Do it cleverly.
SCENE IV
Doña Mercedes, Pepito, and Ernest. Doña Mercedes seated in the arm-chair, Pepito standing, and Ernest behind, whom neither salute nor look at.
Ernest. [Aside.] Hostile silence, anger, and contempt. Through no fault of my own, I now appear to them a prodigy of evil and insolence, and they all despise me.
Pepito. Listen to me, Ernest. [Turns round to him and speaks in a hard voice.]
Ernest. Well.
Pepito. I have to tell you
Ernest. To go away, perhaps.
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