Really, I do not know—perhaps as a joke!
JACQUES DE RANDOL
Please do not mock me.
MME. DE SALLUS
I say to myself, here is a man who is very much in love with me. So far as I am concerned, I am perfectly free, morally, since for two years past I have altogether ceased to please my husband. Now, since this man loves me, why should I not love him?
JACQUES DE RANDOL
You are philosophic—and cruel.
MME. DE SALLUS
On the contrary, I have not been cruel. Of what do you complain?
JACQUES DE RANDOL