Mouzon. If anyone reproaches you with the penalty inflicted upon you formerly, if anyone makes any illusion to the time you have spent in custody under remand, you have the right to prosecute the offender in the courts. He will be punished.
Yanetta. Well! It is because someone reproached me with that old conviction that my husband has taken my children from me. That someone is a magistrate. Can I have him punished?
Mouzon. No.
Yanetta. Why not? Because he is a magistrate?
Mouzon. No. Because he is the law.
Yanetta. The law! [Violently] Then the law is wicked, wicked!
Mouzon. Come, no shouting, no insults, please. [To the recorder] Have you finished? Then go to the office and have an order made out for her discharge.
Yanetta. I'm no scholar; I've not studied the law in books, like you, and perhaps for that very reason I know better than you what is just and what is not. And I want to ask you a plain question: How is the law going to give me back my children and make up to me for the harm it's done me?
Mouzon. The law owes you nothing.
Yanetta. The law owes me nothing! Then what are you going to do—you, the judge?