LUCIE. Then what are we to do?
BRIGNAC. Not a soul in Châteauneuf must know what has happened. Fortunately we have a little time.
LUCIE. What are you going to do?
BRIGNAC. We’ll see. We’ll think it over. One doesn’t come to a decision of this importance in ten minutes.
LUCIE. I want to know what you are going to do. Your point of view surprises me so much that I wish to understand it completely.
BRIGNAC. Understand this, then: if the matter is kept secret, it is only our misfortune; if it becomes public, it will be a scandal.
LUCIE. How can it be kept secret?
BRIGNAC. We must pack Annette off before anyone suspects.
LUCIE. Where is she to go?