Guéret. She will live with us, of course.
Madame Guéret. "Of course"! I like that.
Guéret. She has no other relations, and her father left her in my care.
Madame Guéret. He left her in your care, and it's I who have been rushed into all the trouble of a child who is nothing to me.
Guéret. Child! She was nineteen when her father died.
Féliat. To look after a young girl of nineteen is a very great responsibility.
Madame Guéret [laughing bitterly] Ho! Ho! Look after! Look after Mademoiselle Thérèse! You think she's a person who allows herself to be looked after! And yet you've seen her more or less every holidays.
Guéret. You've not had to look after her; she has been at the Lycée.
Thérèse comes in dressed as Kalekairi from "Barberine." She is a pretty girl of twenty-three, healthy, and bright.
Thérèse. The bell, the bell, godmother! You're forgetting the bell! Good-evening, Monsieur Féliat.