"Who can tell? Perhaps she was compelled to."
"And if your family should prove to be rich, they wouldn't be willing that I should be your husband perhaps. Look you, Violette, I prefer that you shouldn't find anybody."
"What a child you are, Georget!"
"There is someone that I would like to find, myself! But I would treat him as he deserves to be treated!"
"Whom are you talking about, Georget?"
"That Monsieur Jéricourt, who laid that trap for you, and then went about saying——"
"I beg you, Georget, let us say no more about that. You are convinced that I am not guilty, aren't you?"
"Oh! can you ask me that, Violette?"
"Well, my dear, don't think any more about that man; I don't want you to find him, do you understand? And if anything should happen to you, think of your mother, and of me. Would you like to kill us with grief? Besides, I never see him now, he never passes my booth."
"And he does well! for if I should see him pass—But I don't know where he keeps himself now; no one ever sees him anywhere; Chicotin isn't any luckier than I am. I went to his lodgings, but he had moved; no one knows where he lives now; he must have left the quarter."