JULIE [nodding sadly] Mine too.
ANTONIN. Unless one gets on nobody thinks anything of one.
JULIE. And marriage is one of the ways of getting on.
ANTONIN. That’s what ruined us.
JULIE. Yes. It has ruined our lives as it has ruined so many others.
ANTONIN [recovering his composure] You understand, then? You do understand, don’t you?
JULIE [dully] Yes.
ANTONIN [taking her hand, which she does not draw away] You’re not angry? [Julie says nothing]. It is all over, isn’t it? [patting her hand] All quite over and done with. [She is still silent]. You see that I mustn’t do anything that might damage the business? You see that?
JULIE. Yes.
ANTONIN. And that it’s better not to offend people who may be useful to us. Isn’t it?