Féliat. You're making a mistake. Your ideas do you credit, but believe me, you're laying up trouble for yourself in the future. [She makes a movement to interrupt him] Wait. I don't want to argue. I want you to listen to me, and I want to persuade you to follow my advice. Come to Evreux and you may be perfectly certain that you won't be left an old maid all your life. Even without money you'll find a husband there. You're too pretty, too charming, too well educated not to turn the head of some worthy gentleman. You made a sensation at the reception at the Préfecture. If you don't know that already, I tell you so.
Thérèse. I'm extremely flattered.
Féliat. Do you know that if—well, if you decide to marry—I might—
Thérèse. But I've not decided to marry.
Féliat. All right, all right, I am speaking about later on. Well, you've seen Monsieur Baudoin and Monsieur Gambard—
Thérèse. I haven't the slightest intention of—
Féliat [interrupting] There's no question of anything immediate. But for a person as wise and sensible as you are, the position of both the one and the other deserves—
Thérèse. I know them both.
Féliat. Yes; but—
Thérèse. Now look here. If I had two hundred thousand francs, would you suggest that I should marry either of them?