MME. DUPONT. I shall not allow you to go!
GEORGE. Oh well, let her go; after all we can’t keep her by force. [To the nurse] Since you want to go, you shall go: but I can only say that you’re as stupid as a cow.
NURSE. I don’t mind if I am.
GEORGE. I shall not pay you for the month that has just begun, and you will pay for your own railway ticket.
NURSE. We’ll see about that.
GEORGE. Yes, you will see. You’ll see this moment, too! Be off with you, I don’t want you any longer. Now then!
MME. DUPONT. Don’t fly into a rage, George. [To the nurse] You don’t mean it seriously, nurse, surely?
NURSE. I would rather go back home at once and only have my five hundred francs.
GEORGE. What’s that?
MME. DUPONT. What are you talking about?