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Maternity 163
have a future mother at my side instead of a loving
wife? ... A father is a man all the same.
Lucie. Rubbish! You evidently take me for a fool.
I know what you do at those times. . . . Don t deny it.
You must see that I know all about it. ... Do you want
me to tell you the name of the person you go to see over
at Villeneuve, while I am nursing or
"
a future mother,"
as you call it? We had better say no more about it.
Erignac goes off to his political meeting to pro
claim to his constituency the sacredness of mother
hood, the deepest and highest function of
woman.
Lucie has a younger sister, Annette, a girl of
eighteen. Their parents being dead, Lucie takes
the place of the mother. She is passionately fond
of her little sister and makes it her purpose to
keep the girl sheltered and protected from the
outside world. Annette arrives and announces
with great enthusiasm that the son of the wealthy
Bernins has declared his love and asked her to
marry him, and that his mother, Mme. Bernin,
is coming to talk the matter over with Lucie.
Mme. Bernin does arrive, but not for the pur
pose poor Annette had hoped. Rather is it to
tell Lucie that her son cannot marry the girl.
Oh, not because she isn t beautiful, pure or at
tractive. Indeed not! Mme. Bernin herself
says that her son could not wish for a more suit
able match. But, then, she has no money, and
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