Mouzon. Well—in consideration of the time you have been in custody, I am willing that you should be set at liberty—provisional liberty. I may, perhaps, even withdraw my complaint if you express regret for having insulted me.

Yanetta [calmly] I do not regret having insulted you.

Mouzon. Do you want to go back to prison?

Yanetta. My poor man, if you only knew how little it matters to me whether I go to prison or not!

Mouzon. Why?

Yanetta. Because I have nothing left, neither house, nor home, nor husband, nor children. [She looks at him] And—I think—I think—

Mouzon. You think?

Yanetta. I think it is you who are the cause of all the trouble.

Mouzon. You are both acquitted, aren't you? What more do you ask?

Yanetta. We have been acquitted, it is true. But all the same, I am no longer an honest woman—neither to my husband, nor to my children, nor to the world.