"Where are you going?"
"Where I choose."
"To see the examining-magistrate?"
"Very likely."
"You sha'n't pass!"
"As you please. I'll wait for him here."
"And you'll tell him what?"
"Why, all that you've said, of course, all that you've been silly enough to say. How could he doubt the story? You have explained it all to me so fully."
Thérèse took her by the shoulders:
"Yes, but I'll explain other things to him at the same time, Germaine, things that concern you. If I'm ruined, so shall you be."