YANETTA [_as before_] The night Daddy Goyetche was murdered my husband never left the house. MOUZON. You seem to have got stuck. You go on repeating the same thing. YANETTA. Yes, I go on repeating the same thing. MOUZON. Well, now let us examine into the value of your evidence. Since your marriage--for the last ten years--your conduct has left nothing to be desired. You are thrifty, faithful, industrious, honest-- YANETTA. Well? MOUZON. Wait a moment. You have two children, whom you adore. You are an excellent mother. One hears of your almost heroic behavior at the time your eldest child was ill--Georges, I think. YANETTA. Yes, it was Georges. But what has that to do with the charge against my husband? MOUZON. Have patience. You will see presently. YANETTA. Very well. MOUZON. It is all the more to your credit that you are what you are, for your husband does not give us an example of the same virtues. He occasionally gets drunk. YANETTA. No, he doesn't. MOUZON. Come--everyone knows that. He is violent. YANETTA. He's not violent. MOUZON. So violent that he has been convicted four times for assault and battery. YANETTA. That's possible; at holiday times, in the evening, men get quarrelling. But that was a long time ago. Now he behaves better, and I'm very happy with him. MOUZON. That surprises me. YANETTA. Anyhow, does that prove he murdered old Goyetche? MOUZON. Your husband is very grasping. YANETTA. Poor people are forced to be very grasping or else to die of starvation. MOUZON. You defend him well. YANETTA. Did you suppose I was going to accuse him? MOUZON. Have you ever been convicted? YANETTA [_anxious_] Me? Mouzon. Yes, you. YANETTA [_weakly_] No, I've never been convicted. Mouzon. That is curious because there was a girl of your name in Paris who was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for receiving stolen property. YANETTA [_weakly_] For receiving stolen property-- MOUZON. You are not quite so bold now--you are disturbed. YANETTA [_as before_] No-- MOUZON. You are pale--you are trembling--you are feeling faint. Give her a chair, Benoit. [_The recorder obeys_] Pull yourself together! YANETTA. My God, you know that? MOUZON. Here is the report which has been sent me. "The woman Yanetta X--was brought to Paris at the age of sixteen as companion or lady's maid by Monsieur and Madame So-and-so, having been employed by them in that capacity at Saint-Jean-de-Luz." Is that correct? YANETTA. Yes.