"With regard to one's rights."
"What rights?"
"The husband's rights and then the wife's rights."
"Of course I do."
"Oh! Then just tell me, M'sieu Cacheux, has my wife the right to go to bed with Polyte?"
"What do you mean by going to bed with Polyte?"
"Yes, has she any right before the law, and seeing that she is my wife, to go to bed with Polyte?"
"Why of course not, of course not."
"If I catch him there again, shall I have the right to thrash him and her also?"
"Why ... why ... why, yes."