PRESIDENT. And you are equally lost to any interest in humanity.
TUPIN. If humanity can’t get on without a set of wretches like me, let it go smash!
PRESIDENT. Well, the jury can estimate your sense of morality. You may sit down.
Night has come. The ushers bring lamps.
MME. D’AMERGUEUX. I shouldn’t like to meet that man of an evening in a lonely place.
M. DE FORGEAU. Nor I. Now for Madame Brignac—that was. My dear lady, what a dreadful thing!
MME. D’AMERGUEUX. Dreadful!
PRESIDENT. We have now only to examine the facts concerning Lucie and Annette Jarras. [To the defendant Thomas] Stand up. This girl, Annette Jarras, was your victim. What have you to say?
MME. THOMAS. Nothing.