ANTONIN [calls] Are you coming, Julie? [Julie starts as if she had been dreaming. She looks round her in a dazed way]. Come along.
JULIE [with a deep sigh, her face showing a mingled expression of profound disgust and sorrowful resignation] I am coming. [She goes slowly towards the door of the bedroom].
ACT III
The scene is the same as in the first Act. It is September. Dupont and his wife are sitting together. There is a pile of account books on the table between them.
DUPONT [to his wife, who is holding a paper] You see what the accounts say. They aren’t brilliant. [To the maid who enters] As soon as Mlle. Caroline comes in ask her to come here.
SERVANT. Yes, sir. [The maid goes out].
MME. DUPONT. The turnover is smaller than last year.
DUPONT. The profits are down to nothing. I’m wrong. 112 francs 17. Splendid things accounts!