Scene 4 Blandinet, Henriette, Leonce, Then Joseph [a Servant]
A scene of some fourteen brief speeches follows, when:
(They start to go out, Tiburce appears.)
Scene 5 The Same Persons, Tiburce
After a scene of eleven short speeches,
(Blandinet goes over to left with Leonce.)
Scene 6 Henriette, Tiburce
Henriette, who sat down after the entrance of Tiburce, and took up her work again, rises immediately on the exit of Blandinet, folding her work.
Tiburce. (Approaching her hesitatingly.) You are not working any longer, Aunt.... It’s done already?
(Henriette bows to him frigidly and goes out at right.)