Vagret. I must console myself with Berryer's remark: "It is better to leave ten guilty men at liberty than to punish one innocent man."
The President. You have a sensitive nature.
Vagret. Ought one to have a heart of stone, then, to be a magistrate?
The President [tying up the box in which he has put his judge's bonnet] One must keep oneself above the little miseries of humanity.
Vagret. Above the miseries of others.
The President. Hang it all—
Vagret. That is what we call egoism.
The President. Do you say that for my benefit?
Vagret. For all three of us.
Bunerat. Au revoir, gentlemen. Au revoir. [He shakes hands with each and goes out]