(_Vicomte staggers; Cyrano bows._) For now I close th' Envoy.... (_pointing to Vicomte_) I touch! (_Applause in boxes. Flowers and handkerchiefs are thrown. Officers surround and congratulate Cyrano. Ragueneau dances for joy. Le Bret seems both overjoyed and dejected. The Vicomte's friends support him and bear him off._) A MUSKETEER (_most cordially shaking Cyrano's hand_). Allow an expert to congratulate you, Sir, most heartily. (_He leaves._) CYRANO (_to Cuigy_). Who is this gentleman? CUIGY. D'Artagnan! LE BRET (_passing his arm through Cyrano's_). Now let us talk!.... CYRANO. Wait till the crowd has left. (_to Bellerose_). May we stay a while? BELLEROSE (_to Cyrano_). Certainly, Sir. (_giving orders to Janitor_). Close the house, but do not put out the lights. We'll return after dinner for a rehearsal. (_Jodelet and Bellerose bow to Cyrano, then exeunt._) JANITOR (_to Cyrano_). You are not going to dinner, Sir? CYRANO. I?.... No. (_Exit Janitor._) LE BRET (_to Cyrano_). Why not? CYRANO (_proudly_). Because.... (_changing his tone, when he sees that the Janitor has gone_). Because I have no money!.... LE BRET (_as if throwing a purse_). How about that bag of coin? CYRANO. Monthly allowance, thou wert short lived! One day! LE BRET. For a whole month, then.... CYRANO. I have nothing left. LE BRET. To throw away thus your purse, what folly! CYRANO. Yes, but what a gesture! THE WAITING-GIRL (_behind the counter_). Hum! (_Cyrano and Le Bret turn around. She advances timidly._) Sir .... I cannot bear.... to see you fast.... (_Showing the buffet_). I have here several things.... Take some! CYRANO (_taking off his hat_). My dear child, Gascon pride forbids my accepting from you the smallest of your delicacies. But, on the other hand, I would not for the whole world offend you, as my refusal might do. So I will with pleasure accept.... (_Goes up to the buffet and chooses._) Oh! the smallest thing!.... ah! one grape from this bunch. (_She tries to make him take the bunch, but he picks out a single grape._) Only one.... a glass of water.... (_She tries to pour some wine, but he prevents her._)