Then first prove to me that it is not Jean's child.
MME. DE RONCHARD
You ask an impossibility.
MARTINEL
And so do you. The principal judge in the matter, look you, is my nephew himself. We others can do nothing but accept his decision.
MME. DE RONCHARD
But meanwhile—
PETITPRÉ
Silence, Clarisse. Monsieur Martinel is right.
MME. DE RONCHARD [ironically]