Madame Fourchambault--What does that matter? Haven't I been the happiest of wives?
Fourchambault--What? One word is as good as a hundred. I won't have him. Blanche need not take Chauvet, but she shan't marry Rastiboulois either. That's all I have to say.
Madame Fourchambault--But, Monsieur--
Fourchambault--That's all I have to say.
[He goes out.]