“He told you that we were married, I am sure of it.”
“Oh! they are deceivers all; don’t put any faith in the blood, my dear; but just go away like a nice girl and hide your shame in the country. I’ll give you a trifle for travelling expenses, and then you might make a nice match, where no one ever heard of you before.”
“Hush, madam, I will not listen to this; it degrades me and my husband.”
“Your husband, ha! A tender, attentive husband, isn’t he? Don’t you wonder when he will come back?”
“Tell me where he is gone. Oh, tell me that, and I will trouble you no more!”
“Why? what would you do?”
“I would follow him to the uttermost ends of the earth, as a true wife should follow the man she loves.”
“Would you, my dear? But that is just what the young fellow does not want. He has left you, girl, and I tell you he will never return, never, never, do you hear?”
“I do not believe it. Sooner or later he will come back to contradict this wicked slander. He is not a bad man!”
“Just as you please to think, my dear; only he is a long time in coming!”