COUN. You are a rude little fellow, and you ought to know that outside among people of quality, means the ante-room. Andrée, mind you ask my equerry to flog this little rogue. He is an incorrigible little wretch. AND. Whom do you mean by your equerry, Ma'am? Is it Mr. Charles you call by that name? COUN. Be silent, impertinent girl! You can hardly open your month without making some rude remark. (_To_ CRIQUET) Quick, some seats; (_to_ ANDRÉE) and you, light two wax candles in my silver candlesticks; it is getting late. What is it now? why do you look so scared? AND. Ma'am. COUN. Well--Ma'am--what is the matter? AND. It is that ... COUN. What? AND. I have no wax candles, but only dips. COUN. The simpleton! And where are the wax candles I bought a few days ago? AND. I have seen none since I have been here. COUN. Get out from my presence, rude girl. I will send you back to your home again. Bring me a glass of water. SCENE VII.--THE COUNTESS and JULIA (_making much ceremony before they sit down_). COUN. Madam! JU. Madam! COUN. Ah! Madam! JU. Ah! Madam! COUN. Madam, I beg of you! JU. Madam, I beg of you! COUN. Oh! Madam! JU. Oh! Madam! COUN. Pray, Madam! JU. Pray, Madam! COUN. Now really, Madam! JU. Now really, Madam! COUN. I am in my own house, Madam! We are agreed as to that. Do you take me for a provincial, Madam? JU. Oh! Heaven forbid, Madam! SCENE VIII.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE (_who brings a glass of water_), CRIQUET. COUN. (_to_ ANDRÉE). Get along with you, you hussy. I drink with a salver. I tell you that you must go and fetch me a salver. AND. Criquet, what's a salver? CRI. A salver? AND. Yes. CRI. I don't know. COUN. (_to_ ANDRÉE). Will you move, or will you not? AND. We don't either of us know what a salver is. COUN. Know, then, that it is a plate on which you put the glass. SCENE IX.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA. COUN. Long live Paris! It is only there that one is well waited upon; there a glance is enough. SCENE X.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA, ANDRÉE (_who brings a glass of water, with a plate on the top of it_), CRIQUET. COUN. Is that what I asked you for, dunderhead? It is under that you must put the plate. AND. That is easy to do. (_She breaks the glass in trying to put it on the plate._) COUN. You stupid girl! You shall really pay for the glass; you shall, I promise you! AND. Very well, Ma'am, I will pay you for it. COUN. But did you ever see such an awkward loutish girl? such a ... AND. I say, Ma'am, if I am to pay for the glass, I won't be scolded into the bargain. COUN. Get out of my sight. SCENE XI.--THE COUNTESS, JULIA. COUN. Really, Madam, small towns are strange places. In them there is no respect of persons, and I have just been making a few calls at houses where they drove me almost to despair; so little regard did they pay to my rank. JU. Where could you expect them to have learnt manners? They have never been to Paris.