JULIE. Why didn’t they then, in Heaven’s name? Oh, if you knew how I long to have a child to console me for all this. If I should never have one. If I should never have one. [Shudders]. But I mustn’t even think of that.
MME. DUPONT. My dear child, you must look at things more calmly. All this will gradually settle down until at last it passes away altogether.
JULIE. Yes. When I am an old woman.
MME. DUPONT. Exactly, when you are an old woman.
JULIE. Thank you.
MME. DUPONT. In any case, you should try to control yourself a little. If only for your father’s sake and mine.
JULIE. I will try. [Antonin comes in]. Hush. Here he is. Go away, mother. You will only make things worse. [Madame Dupont goes out].
ANTONIN [furious] Well! This is the last straw. Your father won’t keep his word. You have heard?
JULIE [sitting on the sofa] Yes.
ANTONIN. It doesn’t disturb you apparently.