Thérèse. Will you allow me to express my astonishment that you should make conditions with us when you wish to take something from us?
Charpin. We're ony tellin' you our terms for sharing the work with you.
Thérèse. I quite understand; but we have no desire to share it with you. We mean to keep it. And I'm greatly surprised to hear you suggest that we should all work together.
Constance. Indeed we won't.
Deschaume. Why not, Mademoiselle? When we worked together—
Constance [interrupting] When we worked with you before, you played all sorts of dirty tricks on us to make us leave.
Deschaume. What tricks? Did you hear anything about that, Charpin?
Charpin. I dunnow what she's talkin' about. D'you Vincent?
Vincent. Look here, I only want to get to an understandin'.
Constance. You never stopped sayin' beastly things.