Madame Guéret. Well, I declare!
Thérèse. I'll show it to you. He's been gambling. To get a bigger fortune for his girls, he says.
Madame Guéret. You knew it! And you've had the strength, the—duplicity?
Thérèse [smiling] Just as you had yourself, godmamma. And I'm so much obliged to both of you for saying nothing to me, because I'm sure you wanted me to have my play to-night and enjoy myself; and that was why you tried to keep the news from me.
Madame Guéret. And you were able to laugh and to act!
Thérèse. I've always tried to keep myself in hand.
Madame Guéret. Oh, I know. All the same—And I was so careful about breaking this news to you, and you knew it all the time!
Thérèse. I'm very sorry. But you—
Madame Guéret. All right, all right. Well, then, we have nothing to tell. But do you understand that you've not a penny left?