Madame Vagret. Well, what does Biribi mean in Basque?
Catialéna. I don't know.
Madame Vagret. What? You don't know? You mean you don't want to say? Is it a bad word?
Catialéna. Oh no, Madame, I should know it then.
Vagret. Biribi—
Bertha. Perhaps it's a nickname they give you.
Madame Vagret. Perhaps that's it. [A pause] Well?
Catialéna. They're speaking of the master.
Madame Vagret [to her husband] I told you so. [To Catialéna] Abusing him?
Vagret. I tell you that's enough! [He snatches the paper from Catialéna and puts it in his pocket] Go back to the kitchen. Hurry now—quicker than that!