Old Madame Etchepare. I'm so thankful to see the end of all our troubles. He'll come back and get our house and field again for us. He'll make them give up our cattle. That's why I wanted to see one of these gentlemen.
La Bouzole. Will you explain?
Old Madame Etchepare. A fortnight after the gendarmes came to arrest my boy, Monsieur Claudet turned the waste water from his factory into the brook that passes our house where we water the beasts. That was one of the things that ruined us too. If Etchepare finds things like that when he gets back, God knows what he'll do! I want the law to stop them doing us all this harm.
La Bouzole. The law! Ah, my good woman, it would be far better for you to have nothing to do with the law.
Old Madame Etchepare. But why? There is justice, and it's for everybody alike.
La Bouzole. Of course.
Old Madame Etchepare. Has Monsieur Claudet the right—
Old Madame Etchepare. Then I want to ask the judge to stop him.
La Bouzole. It is not so simple as you suppose, Madame. First of all you must go to the bailiff.