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ACT 2
Cléante, Angélique’s lover, knocks on the door.
CLÉANTE: “Say it is the new music teacher.”
TOINETTE: “Good idea!”
ARGAN: “My doctor’s orders: walk back and forth to my room 12 times.”
TOINETTE: “Sir, there is a…”
ARGAN: “Shhh! Quietly.”
TOINETTE: “Sir, psstsss…”
ARGAN: “What?”
TOINETTE: “I am saying: psstssspss…”
ARGAN: “What are you saying?”
TOINETTE, yells: “A man wants to talk to you!”
ARGAN: “Yes!”
CLÉANTE: “Sir, I am replacing the music teacher.”
ARGAN: “All right.”
CLÉANTE: “A shepherd loves a shepherdess.”
CLÉANTE: “The shepherd suffers.”
TOINETTE: “This is Mr. Diafoirus and his son.”
M. DIAFOIRUS: “Sir, we are here to ask your daughter in marriage.”
THOMAS: “Miss, I offer you, my heart.”
TOINETTE: “Is he also a good doctor?”
ARGAN: “My daughter, take Thomas’ hand.”
ANGÉLIQUE: “Please, Father, take it easy.”
ARGAN: “After the wedding!”
ANGÉLIQUE: “Not a marriage without love.”
She leaves.
ARGAN: “Mister Diagoirus, how is my health?”
M. DIAFOIRUS: “The problem is the spleen.”
ARGAN: “My doctor says it is the liver.”
M. DIAFOIRUS: “It goes together.”
M. DIAFOIRUS: “Roasted food?”
ARGAN: “No, boiled food.”
M. DIAFOIRUS: “Yes: roasted, boiled, same thing.”