Thérèse. This very evening.
Féliat. He'll want to see you. My child, will you have the courage to resist him?
Thérèse. You needn't trouble about that.
Féliat. If he was mad enough to want to do without his parents' consent, they wish me to tell you that they would never speak to him again.
Thérèse. I see.
Féliat. That he would be a stranger to them. You understand all that that means?
Thérèse [discouraged] Yes, yes; oh yes.
Féliat. If you are not strong enough to stand out against his entreaties, you will be his ruin.
Thérèse. I quite understand.
Féliat. People would think very badly of you.