DIDIER (to Laffemas, who laughs triumphantly).

Yes, you can
Send all of them away. You've got your prey.
Your prisoner himself takes up his chain.
This joy has cost you a great deal of work.

MARION (running to him).

Didier!

DIDIER (with a freezing look).

Don't try to hinder me this time,
Madame!

[She starts back and falls crushed upon the bank: to Laffemas.

LAFFEMAS (with concentrated rage, trying to laugh).

You are not a comedian, it would seem!

DIDIER.