The Impostures of Scapin (Act 3 Scene 4)
ZERBINETTE, SILVESTRE.
SIL
Where are you running away to? Do you know that the man you were speaking to is your lover's father?
ZER
I have just begun to suspect that it was so; and I related to him his own story without knowing who he was.
SIL
What do you mean by his story?
ZER
Yes; I was so full of that story that I longed to tell it to somebody. But what does it matter? So much the worse for him. I do not see that things can be made either better or worse.
SIL
You must have been in a great hurry to chatter; and it is indiscretion, indeed, not to keep silent on your own affairs.
ZER
Oh! he would have heard it from somebody else.
SIL
Where are you running away to? Do you know that the man you were speaking to is your lover's father?
ZER
I have just begun to suspect that it was so; and I related to him his own story without knowing who he was.
SIL
What do you mean by his story?
ZER
Yes; I was so full of that story that I longed to tell it to somebody. But what does it matter? So much the worse for him. I do not see that things can be made either better or worse.
SIL
You must have been in a great hurry to chatter; and it is indiscretion, indeed, not to keep silent on your own affairs.
ZER
Oh! he would have heard it from somebody else.