ACTE III, SCÈNE Vn

LA DUCHESSE, au docteur Embrassez-le. Vous le devez.

LE DOCTEUR, devinant le sacrifice de son frère Ohl

Us s'embrassent

RIDEAU

The heavy figtiies refer to pages; the light figures to lines.

5, 4. Connais pas, colloquial, "Don't know him."

6, 6. On ne visite pas, "this establishment is not open to the pubUc."

12. à moins de connaître un malade et que celui-ci consente à le recevoir, "imless he knows a patient and the latter consents to receive him." Que stands for à moins que as is usual in French when a conjimction is repeated. Compare page 41, line 12, quand vous serez cardinal . . , et que vous descendrez de carrosse. This practice is very generally overlooked by students and causes trouble especially in long sentences.

12, 6. qu'on a l'air d'y tenir, "as one likes to make out." 16. Ce sont des regrets en moins, allez! — Ou en plus. "Well so much the less to regret I" Or "so much the more."

15, Q. Nonplus, "No, I do not do that either." Such expressions must be translated with great freedom according to the context.

11. vous trouvez, "You really think so? " Cf. 52, 10, tu trouves f

16, 7. n ne faut pas, "You must not." The stilted, impersonal "It is not necessary," does not translate II ne faut pas. Falloir corresponds most closely to the English "must" or "have to."

12. Pourquoi faire? "What for?" another of the many phrases a literal translation of which, as they occur constantly in the rapid dialogue of a play, is ruinous to the sense.

17, 9. quand même, "even if." Quand, with or without même, used with the conditional, or occasionally the subjunctive, always means "even if."

18, 6. impatiences. This common use of the plural of abstract nouns in French to indicate more than one case or sort of whatever the noun stands for is rarely found in English. The force of the pliu^l can scarcely be rendered here. Sometimes a clumsy phrase