ANGÈLE. I have just seen Julie. She was kinder than you are. And she was only five when I left home and she is only my half-sister. You and I have the same father and the same mother. We are almost of an age and we used to love one another.
CAROLINE [coldly] That is true.
ANGÈLE. If you knew all about it you would forgive me.
CAROLINE. Are the things that were said about you untrue?
ANGÈLE. No. However bad they were they are true.
CAROLINE. Since that is so—
ANGÈLE [without anger] Since that is so—I still think your virtue very proud and very hard. That is all. [Changing her tone] You understand what has brought me here?
CAROLINE. I understand that we are to meet at the lawyer’s.
ANGÈLE. Very well. To-morrow at four.
CAROLINE. To-morrow at four at the lawyer’s.