Arnolphe reels from the discovery that his ward, Agnès, has outsmarted him by sending a secret letter to her lover. He struggles with a volatile mix of fury over his wounded pride and the painful realization that he is genuinely in love with the woman he tried to keep ignorant.
ARNOLPHE: How mortifying! I made sure he never knew,
But what an effort, hiding my discomfiture!
She’s ignorant, but oh! the cleverness of her!
The minx was just pretending, knew it all along––
The devil must have shown her how to lead me on.
That dreaded letter has most surely sealed my doom.
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