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6. They're calling! They're ringing bells! We're coming!

7. What drama! What yelling! We're bewildered! Coming!

8. Oh my dear! She's a shrew, that woman!

9. Sir!

11. Continue. It's only me.

12. Why so quiet? No need to be so proper with me.

13. Don't be so troubled by my presence. Tell me, what's going on?

14. We all avow you are very kind! But, it's madame!

15. Eh! What do you mean? (Actually, they're right!)

16. - Go on! They're summoning you! - Sir, you are so kind! - Yes, yes, enough!

17. But… it's madame!

19. The man is supposed to wear the pants! I should be able to get my wife to obey!

20. Alas! Wanting is one thing, doing is quite another!

21. Gods, why did this tranquil widower, living at home away from the city…

22. …free from cares and drama, with my adorable little daughter, leave my farm and my great forests? Why?!

23. To go off tempting the devil, by getting very much remarried to a proud countess with a fearful temper…

24. … who brought me as a wedding gift (it's so terrible!) two daughters! Two!

25. Alas, it is my pitiable fate to be legally obligated to cherish them! Pity me, spirit of Philémon!

26. If only I were alone in this misery! For you, my own little girl, get abandoned in the process!

27. My little Lucette, how I suffer seeing you without riches…

28. …hiding yourself to come sneak to me a kiss, without even an accusing glance, when I do not take you to the ball!

29. And to see you like this, oh how I suffer! Oh my Lucette! How I suffer!

31. What do you want, I know it's wrong! But when my wife rages, I tremble and cannot withstand the storm!

32. Perhaps it will be painful, but it is necessary that some day, at last, I will end up master in my own home!

33. At last I will be master!

34. My wife! Alas! I'm leaving! Wanting is one thing, doing is quite another!

36. - Make yourselves beautiful this evening, I have high hopes! - Why, Mamma?

37. - Can one ever know? - What is your great hope?

38. Make yourselves very beautiful this evening, I have high hopes!

39. - No, nothing about this could surprise me. - What's that?

40. - It's more than one time that we have seen kings… - What's that, Mamma!? What have the kings done?

41. - We must be ready for anything. - For anything? But why?

42. - Because tonight I'm going to present you to the King! - What joy! We are going to see the King!

43. - He'll take notice of you, I hope! - Then what will we have to do?

45. You must do as I do!

46. - The ball is a battlefield! - How's that, Mamma, a battlefield?

47. Stand up straight, don't lose your height.

48. No nervous movements. Have they properly curled your hair?

49. I don't want to believe that the stroke of lightning that is love at first sight exists only in novels!

50. The stroke of lightning!

52. Take on an air of graciousness, while rounding your mouths to a slight, sexy pout…

53. Good! Don't have an air too fierce!

54. Perfect! It couldn't be better! Don't be common, or too original!

55. - What success we will have! What hope I have! - We'll be beautiful this evening! We know what your hope is!

56. - Make yourselves beautiful this evening! - We'll be beautiful this evening!

57. Madame, here are the dressmakers! Here are the tailors! Here are the hairdressers!

58. Bring in those artists!

60. Her dress needs the folds to be lighter, more supple…

61. - What do you think? The line will be more pure! - Dorothea! Ha! What a figure!

62. What? Nothing!

63. - Very nice indeed. That hairdo is well suited to the face. - And it's made with real hair!

64. Do we look good like this? Really?

65. Really! No flattery! It's charming!

66. They will most certainly talk about it!