Claude.
[Furiously.] This insolence is intolerable. Madame Deschappelles....
Mrs. Melnotte.
[Intervening.] Claude, Claude, don’t be angry! Remember who she is.
Claude.
[Savagely.] I remember well enough. She is Madame Deschappelles, and her husband is a successful tradesman. He was an English shop-boy, and his proper name was Chapel. He came over to France, grew rich, put a “de” before his name, and now gives himself airs like the other parvenus.
Mrs. Deschappelles.
Monster!
Pauline.