Chapter: SCENE II

  ELMIRE, MARIANE, CLEANTE, DORINE


  DORINE (to Cleante)
  Sir, we beg you
  To help us all you can in her behalf;
  She's suffering almost more than heart can bear;
  This match her father means to make to-night
  Drives her each moment to despair. He's coming.
  Let us unite our efforts now, we beg you,
  And try by strength or skill to change his purpose.

 Dorine, Mariane, and Elmire roll in looking concerned. It seems Mariane isn't taking the whole "marrying Tartuffe that evening" thing too well. She wants to do whatever she can to stop it from happening.

