SCENE VI (Monsieur Jourdain, Madame Jourdain, Dorante, Nicole)MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: There are two hundred louis d'or.DORANTE: Iassure you, Monsieur Jourdain, that I am completely yours, and that I am eager to render you a service at court.MONSIEUR JOURDAIN:
I'm much obliged to you.DORANTE: If Madame Jourdain desires to see the royal entertainment, I will have the best places in the ballroom given to her.MADAME JOURDAIN: Madame Jourdain kisses your hands [but declines].DORANTE: (Aside to Monsieur Jourdain)Our beautiful marchioness, as I sent word to you, in my note, will come here soon for the ballet and refreshments; I finally brought her to consent to the entertainment you wish to give her.MONSIEURJOURDAIN: Let us move a little farther away, for a certain reason.
DORANTE: It has been eight days since I saw you, and I have sent you no news regarding the diamond you put into my hands to present to her on your behalf; but it's because I had the greatest difficulty in conquering her scruples, and it's only today that she resolved to accept it.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: How did she judge it?
DORANTE: Marvelous.And I am greatly deceived if the beauty of that diamond does not produce for you an admirable effect on her spirit.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Would to Heaven!
MADAME JOURDAIN: (To Nicole) Once he's with him he cannot leave him.
DORANTE: I made her value as she should the richness of that present and the grandeur of your love.
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: These are, sir, favors which overwhelm me; and Iam in the very greatest confusion at seeing a person of your quality demean himself for me as you do.
DORANTE: Are you joking? Among friends, does one stop at these sorts of scruples? And wouldn't you do the same thing for me, if the occasion offered?
MONSIEUR JOURDAIN: Oh! Certainly, and with all my heart.
MADAME JOURDAIN: (To Nicole) His presence weighs me down!