CATHERINE. Eh! eh!
Fresh silence.
ANNETTE. What a terrible thing life is!
MADELEINE. For all women.
ANNETTE. Not for anyone as much as for me.
MADELEINE. You think so, and that’s why you think of dying. Well, I’m alive. You see me laughing now and then. If you only knew!
CATHERINE. And what about about me, Annette?
ANNETTE. You have your children to console you.
CATHERINE. It’s they that make it hard for me.
ANNETTE. For other women it’s a refuge to have children. What will it be for me?