MADELEINE. It’s the truth; and I’ve learnt it by experience.
ANNETTE. I’m tired of life. I feel as if I were a hundred.
LUCIE. Keep up your heart. We won’t desert you.
ANNETTE. What can you do? I shall be turned away from here.
LUCIE. If you are, I’ll go with you.
ANNETTE. And your children?
LUCIE. I’ll take them, too.
ANNETTE. He’ll fetch them back. Besides, what should we live on?
LUCIE. Ah!
ANNETTE. You see. You can’t do anything either, Madeleine, for all your love. Your husband wouldn’t let you take me in. Nor you either, Catherine. You couldn’t afford to. Well, then?