- Mlle. Berengere: Albert, you must calm yourself. Waiter?
- Albert Loriflan: Yes, madam?
- Mlle. Berengere: Oh no, dear, I was calling the waiter.
- Pierre Bourdin: You must forget everything I told you yesterday. Your only chance is to shoot first. You can't afford to lose a second.
- [Pierre is his second]
- Pierre Bourdin: Albert, Albert, I just learned from the general that the banker is not the man that I thought he was.
- Albert Loriflan: You mean Gastonet is afraid?
- Pierre Bourdin: Afraid? I should say not. Before he settled down in the banking business, he was an officer in the 22nd... And this will make his sixth duel.