Scène I

As for me, I am going to hunt the first volume on the first floor. As the curtain rises, I am reading aloud to my brother, who never takes his eyes f rom me. Our door opens on a terrace. He hastens, in order not to keep his brother waiting. D*Artagnan injured himself. He forced the woman whom he had frightened, to sit down. Very well ; but I beg of you not to take the trouble. They would scold me if I climbed on a chair.