CATHERINE. I will! I will tell! So as they may stop you trying again.
Annette, her teeth clenched, her eyes fixed, shrugs her shoulders. Throughout the ensuing scene no tear comes to her eyes.
MADELEINE. In heaven’s name what has happened?
LUCIE. You’re here, you’re here! [She tries to take Annette in her arms].
ANNETTE. Let me go! Let me go! [She picks up her hat and coat, which she has thrown on to a chair, and sits down, hard and reticent]
LUCIE. What is the matter? What have you done?
ANNETTE [in a broken voice] I wanted to put an end to myself. Catherine stopped me.
LUCIE. To kill—
MADELEINE. Annette!