"You will leave to me the management of our fortune. It will not diminish, never fear."
"I trust implicitly in you."
"I will give you two hundred francs a month for your clothes and your private expenses; I should say that that was enough, eh?"
"It is more than I need! I shan't spend it."
"You will not have to worry about the housekeeping; that will be my business and mine alone."
"That will be all the better."
"Do you agree to all these conditions?"
"With the greatest pleasure."
"It is well. But there is something else: I do not propose that the man whose wife I am, whose name I bear, shall continue to entertain the slightest relations with those persons who have insulted me, and whom I justly regard as my enemies. You must understand me? you must break off all relations with Messieurs Edmond Didier and Freluchon."
"That is understood. Indeed, I shall regret them very little; I will break with them forever!"