MADELEINE. You didn’t forget that in your speech, I hope?
BRIGNAC [simply] No, no; that was part of my peroration. All Frenchmen ought to do like old Féchain.
LUCIE. Who’s he?
BRIGNAC. Old Féchain—he was one of the audience. You’ll see him presently. He came to shake hands with me after the meeting. He has twelve children—magnificent! Magnificent, I repeat. I told him to come round here.
MADELEINE. What for?
BRIGNAC. I don’t know, he was so worked up, I wanted to show him a mark of my sympathy. He’ll tell you how it went off; you don’t believe me, Madeleine.
MADELEINE. Indeed I do.
BRIGNAC. I saw you smiling. Yes, he’ll tell you. [Josephine brings a card in] Dr. Hourtin? I know that name.
LUCIE. Oh yes, I forgot. It’s Dr. Hourtin, the professor at Paris.
MADELEINE. I’ll see him, and explain.