JULIE. Perhaps.
ANTONIN. To celebrate our reconciliation I will give a grand dinner. I will invite the Pouchelets, the Rambourgs, Lignol—
JULIE [sadly, and with meaning] Exactly—Lignol.
DUPONT. Ah, my children, everything comes right when once you make up your mind to be like the rest of the world.
JULIE [slowly] Yes: like the rest of the world. I dreamed of something better. But it seems it was impossible.
Damaged Goods
[Les Avariés]
Translated by John Pollock