Indeed, Madam, you should have been persuaded before. You are a
widow, and depend on nobody but yourself. I am my own master, and I
love you more than my life. What is there to prevent you from making
me supremely happy?
DORI. To say the truth, Dorante, it requires many good qualities on
both sides for people to live happily together, and the two most
sensible people in the world will often find it difficult to make up a
union with which they are satisfied.
DOR. You are wrong, Madam, to fear so many drawbacks to the happiness
of a married life, and your sad experience proves nothing.
DORI. In short, I still come back to this; the expenses which you run
into for my sake make me anxious for two reasons: the first that they
involve me more than I should wish, and the other that I feel certain--
pray be not offended with me--that you cannot incur them without much
inconvenience to yourself; and I do not wish such a state of things to
go on.
DOR. Ah, Madam, these are trifles not worth mentioning, and it is not
from that....
DORI. I know what I am saying; and, among other things, the diamond
you forced upon me is of a price....
DOR. Nay, Madam, do not set such value upon a thing which my love
thinks so unworthy of you; and allow me.... Here is the master of the
house.
SCENE XIX.--MR. JOURDAIN, DORIMENE, DORANTE.
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