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1 68 Brleux
houses: very respectable ones. I ll inquire: of course
without letting out that it is for anyone I know. And
I ll pay what is necessary. What more can you want?
Lucie. Just when the child is most in need of every
care, you propose to send her off alone ; alone, do you un
derstand, alone! To tear her away from here, put her
into a train, and send her off to Paris, like a sick animal
you want to get rid of. If I consented to that I should
feel that I was as bad as the man who seduced her. Be
honest, Julien: remember it is in our interest you pro
pose to sacrifice her. We shall gain peace and quiet at
the price of her loneliness and despair. To save our
selves serious troubles, I admit we are to abandon
this child to strangers . . .
away from all love and care
and comfort, without a friend to put kind arms around
her and let her sob her grief away, i implore you,
Julien, I entreat you, for our children s sake, don t keep
me from her, don t ask me to do this shameful thing.
Engnac. There would have been no question of mis
ery if she had behaved herself.
Lucie. She is this man s victim! But she won t go.
You ll have to drive her out as you drove out the serv
ant. . . . And then after that she is to let her child
go; to stifle her strongest instinct; to silence the cry of
love that consoles us all for the tortures we have to go
through; to turn away her eyes and say,
"
Take him away,
I don t want him." And at that price she is to be
forgiven for another person s crime. . . . Then that is
Society s welcome to the new born child?
Brignac. To the child born outside of marriage, yes.
If it wasn t for that, there would soon be nothing but
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