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ACT 2 Dialogue SANCHO and JOSÉ re-enter and come down. Meanwhile JUANITA and PEDRO are crossing bridge and coming down. SANCHO: (coming down)
The poor gentleman has fainted. (to
JOSÉ) Apothecary! the restoratives. JOSÉ:
Restoration isn't much in our line. (They feel his pulse)
I may as well take my fee in advance. SANCHO: (taking his watch and chain)
There's a weight off his chest.
Re-enter INEZ. INEZ: How doth the patient? JOSÉ:
He is already considerably relieved. INEZ: Leave him to me.
(to SANCHO) Keep watch. SANCHO: I will.
(aside) And chain. INEZ: (to JUANITA) Pinch him! GRIGG: (starting up) At . . . ch . . .
(stops in middle of a sneeze)
Inez - José - Juanita - Sancho - it's the gang! ALL: (indignantly) Sir! GRIGG: I apologize. INEZ:
We accept your apology. And now what course do you mean to take? GRIGG: Well, I haven't got much appetite for anything. INEZ: No trifling. How will you deal with
the facts? GRIGG: How?
(puzzled) How?
(suddenly and boldly) I shall deny them! ALL: (PEDRO GOMEZ, JUANITA, SANCHO, JOSÉ coming down)
Witnesses! INEZ: (showing photo taken in Act I)
The photograph! GRIGG: The photo!
(He reels) JUANITA: Taken by Count Vasquez. INEZ: Signed by you, by me, by them! SANCHO, JOSÉ, and PEDRO:
And Us! JUANITA: (coming down)
Your wife and friends are returning. GRIGG: What's to be done? INEZ: Purchase the picture -
and our silence. All nod and put their fingers to their lips. GRIGG: Good! A hundred pounds! INEZ: Done! GRIGG: It's mine.
(Stretching out his hand) INEZ: The money! GRIGG: I haven't got it! INEZ: Borrow. GRIGG: "Borrow in Spain" -
(suddenly) of the Count! I will.
In ten minutes you shall have it - here! ALL: Agreed!
(They make a sign of silence) Mum!
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