Madame Vagret [after reading the note] He isn't coming.
Bunerat. I hardly expected him.
Madame Vagret. A nervous headache he says. He left by the 6:49 train.
Mouzon. That's significant!
Madame Bunerat. It would be impossible to mark his disapproval more clearly.
Bunerat. Three acquittals too!
Madame Bunerat. If it had been a question of celebrated pleaders! But newly fledged advocates!
Madame Vagret [to her daughter] My poor child! What will his report be like?
Bertha. What report?