You would have prevented me from acting as I have done. To
deceive cleverly is virtue in a valet. You will have it that it's a
vice in a master. I must tell you you are scrupulous to a fault. What
I have done for you was done unknown to you.
VALERE: What have you done for me?
FRONTIN: It's a mere nothing. I'm working on marrying you to Isabelle.
VALERE: Frontin, my dear Frontin. You are working for me. In what way?
How? Explain quickly!
FRONTIN: Let me explain first how I am to be rewarded. That's how I
get to be zealous. If I get your Isabelle for you--
VALERE: Well?
FRONTIN: Lace, clothes, diamond. I won't return them. If the outfit is
too short, too long, for better or for worse--I get it. As for the
diamond. It's made for me.
VALERE: I will give you all.
FRONTIN: Listen to my story. With a little money, this brilliant
outfit and finding a place at a card table and some winning cards, and
ogling some of the old girls playing, with one especially, I got in
deep. She has a sterile wit but babbles constantly.
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