LUCIE. It was you who suggested it to me!
BRIGNAC. I know I did. All the stupid things I’ve done in my life—not that there have been many—come from my having too good a heart. All people from the South have; we can’t think twice before doing a kindness. So much the more reason why you should have looked after her carefully.
LUCIE. Oh, it’s too much! When you yourself wanted her to make friends with the Bernins!
BRIGNAC. Because I hoped that old Bernin would be useful to us!
LUCIE. You always kept urging Annette to go to them.
BRIGNAC. So it’s all my fault, is it?
LUCIE. I don’t say that, but I must shew you that I’m not so culpable as you make out. What are we going to do?
BRIGNAC. In any case Annette can’t stay here.
LUCIE. Good heavens, where can she go? Madeleine can’t have her. Perhaps our old nurse, Catherine—