MME. MAIRAUT [to Mairaut] And you urged on that marriage.
MAIRAUT. I!
MME. MAIRAUT. When she was at home she never went to a dressmaker. And now! It’s too much. And we shall have the river in here before long. That wall is bound to go.
MAIRAUT. Do you think so?
MME. MAIRAUT. We shall have the whole house about our ears. And that fool—
MAIRAUT. What fool?
MME. MAIRAUT. Your son, of course, who has put in electric light.
ANTONIN [from the garden door, to Lignol] You didn’t know I’d had electric light put in. We have lots of water power, you see. I ought to have turned it on before. Look. [He touches a button and turns up the light].
LIGNOL. That’s better. [They talk on].
MME. MAIRAUT. If the river rises another couple of inches down will come four hundred feet of that wall.