GEORGE. Now then, out with it.
MME. DUPONT. Well, why is it?
Henriette enters at the back. In the noise of the quarrel no one perceives her.
NURSE. Very well, then. I’m going away because I don’t want to catch your beastly diseases here.
MME. DUPONT. Be quiet, will you?
GEORGE. Shut up, can’t you?
NURSE. Oh, you needn’t be afraid; everyone knows about it. Justin listened at the door to what your doctor was saying and told me what was up. Oh, I may be stupid, but I’m not so stupid as that. I’m going to have my money and get out of this.
GEORGE. Shut up!
MME. DUPONT [taking her by the arm] Hold your tongue, I tell you.
NURSE. Let me go! Let me go! I know your brat’s not going to live. I know it’s rotten through and through because its father’s got a beastly disease that he caught from some woman of the streets.