Don Pedro refuses, because he is not rich.

They shout and gesticulate tremendously but cannot agree, and Rodrigo is about to bear away the exhausted Zara, when the timid servant enters with a letter and a bag from Hagar, who has mysteriously disappeared.

The latter informs the party that she bequeaths untold wealth to the young pair and an awful doom to Don Pedro, if he doesn't make them happy.

The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.

This entirely softens the stern sire.