JULIE. He cannot do otherwise.
ANTONIN. It will be the ruin of me. But you seem to be all in league together, the whole lot of you. Oh, you’re a pretty family! Your father owes us twenty-five thousand francs. He won’t pay them. The other day your sister promised us fifteen thousand francs. To-day she has changed her mind. As for you, you do everything in your power to compromise my position.
JULIE. I?
ANTONIN. You. You disobey me.
JULIE. In what?
ANTONIN. Were you at Mass this morning?
JULIE. No.
ANTONIN. Why not?
JULIE. It is not my fault if I no longer believe.
ANTONIN. I don’t ask you to believe. I ask you to go to Mass. The two things are totally different. A woman ought to go to Mass. If she doesn’t believe she should appear to do so. It is usual among people of good position. I wish you to do as others do. Do you understand? I wish it. I have no desire to pass for a Freethinker when all my clients are Catholics, confound them!