SCENE II— MASCARILLE DISGUISED AS SGANARELLE [ OUTSIDE THE MADAM’ S WINDOW ].
MASCARILLE( DISGUISED AS SGANARELLE): There’ s more than one type of robbery, there’ s more than one sort of thief. With this guise, I’ ll have quarry of the Madam, salaciously. Sure, there’ s joy in coins of gold and revelry with stacks of cash; but there’ s also pounds of flesh and some of it is nectarous. Perhaps misers will clutch banknotes or make love to satchels of gems; some cosset pecunia in haste but pudenda is more to my taste. Ha! What a scurvy lech I am; to think I‘ should’ be a wed man! [ CLIMBS INTO MADAM’ S WINDOW.}
SCENE III— CLUTTERBUCK DISGUISED AS SGANARELLE, MADAM CLUTTERBUCK [ INSIDE THE MAID’ S ROOM ].
MADAM CLUTTERBUCK: Ooh, how nice! Ah yes, what flair! The best caresses ever felt! Thy ministrations were so svelte! What a lover! What a treasure! I praise your art and my good luck: You supersede old Clutterbuck.
CLUTTERBUCK( LIGHTING A CANDLE AND DISCLOSING HIMSELF): How now!‘ Tis you? MADAM CLUTTERBUCK:‘ Tis who? You! Can it be my wedding band got sundered by my own husband? Can it be the man I loathed turns out to be my sweet betrothed?