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!

Bunerat. Nobodies!

Madame Vagret [to her daughter] My poor child! What will his report be like?

Bertha. What report?