AMPH. Do you really dare maintain to my face that I was seen here
before this hour?

ALC. Have you really the assurance to deny that you came here early
yesterday evening?

AMPH. I! I came yesterday?

ALC. Certainly; and you went away again before dawn.

AMPH. Heavens! Was ever such a debate as this heard before? Who
would not be astonished at all this? Sosie?

SOS. She needs six grains of hellebore, Monsieur; her brain is turned.

AMPH. Alcmene, in the name of all the Gods, this discourse will have
a strange ending! Recollect your senses a little better, and think
what you say.

ALC. I am indeed thinking seriously; all in the house saw your
arrival. I am ignorant what motive makes you act thus; but, if the
thing were in need of proof, if it were true that such a thing could
be forgotten, from whom, but from you, could I have heard the news
of the latest of all your battles, and of the five diamonds worn by
Pterelas, who was plunged into eternal night by the strength of your
arm? Could one wish for surer testimony?

AMPH. What? I have already given you the cluster of diamonds which I
had for my share, and intended for you?