“I have said that of you for a very long time, monsieur!”
“I can understand your not being the same to me; but with your children! Why, you have not asked me anything about our son!”
“Could I guess that you had been to see him?”
“You leave little Henriette here, you abandon her to the care of a maid!”
“As if one could always drag a child about, when one goes into society!”
“Drag about! Ah! I prefer to believe, madame, that that word does not come from you; it was probably Madame Dorcelles who taught it to you, in speaking of her own children!”
“It is doubtless because Laure is one of my school friends that you do not like her, and that you say unkind things about her; but I warn you, monsieur, that that will not prevent me from seeing her and from going to her house whenever I please.”
“But if I should forbid you?”
“That would be an additional reason for me to do it.”
“Magnificent, madame! Go your own way and I will go mine.”