SGANARELLE [ ASIDE }: I’ d like to see how I escape these contretemps.
MADAM CLUTTERBUCK: I’ d like to see how you escape these contretemps.
CLUTTERBUCK [ RAISES CUDGEL ]: Your excuse must be a masterpiece to stay smacks that will never cease—
[ FROM OUTSIDE THE ROOM ]: S M A C K! [ SGANARELLE WINCES.]
LUCILLE’ S VOICE [ FROM OUTSIDE THE ROOM ]: You horrid man!
CLUTTERBUCK: How now? What noise from my bedroom? [ GRABS SGANARELLE BY THE CUFF:} Come here, you cheat, you’ ll not desert this house‘ til beat.
SCENE V— LUCILLE, MASCARILLE DISGUISED AS SGANARELLE, CLUTTERBUCK, MADAM CLUTTERBUCK, SGANARELLE [ INSIDE THE MADAM’ S ROOM ].
LUCILLE [ CUDGELLING MASCARILLE DISGUISED AS SGANARELLE ]: I’ ll have thee thrashed to outrage me!
MASCARILLE( DISGUISED AS SGANARELLE): [ ASIDE:} Good God, wrong wench! [ TO LUCILLE:} But, pet— mercy!—
SGANARELLE: Egad! Again, my evil twin!
CLUTTERBUCK: Confound it all, which one is who?
MADAM CLUTTERBUCK: