CAROLINE [confused, after a moment’s silence] You won’t tell anyone, mother?
MME. DUPONT. No.
CAROLINE. Because I prayed for it.
MME. DUPONT [not spitefully, but with a slight shrug of the shoulders] I see.
Julie comes in.
JULIE. Here I am, maman [she kisses her]. You here, Caro? [She does not kiss her].
MME. DUPONT. Ah, Julie! Sit down, dear, and tell me what you have been doing and whom you have seen.
[Her warm greeting to Julie contrasts markedly with the cold reception she previously gave to Caroline].
JULIE. I went to see Madame Leseigneur.