Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux
Chapter 30
RECORDER [_entering by the door at the back_] The hearing is suspended, your worship.
LA BOUZOLE. Has Maitre Placat concluded?
RECORDER. With great applause. Two of the jurymen were seen wiping their eyes. No one doubts there will be an acquittal.
LA BOUZOLE. So much the better.
RECORDER. Your worship knows the great news?
LA BOUZOLE. Which?
RECORDER. That the Attorney-General has arrived.
LA BOUZOLE. No--I know nothing of it.
RECORDER. Yes, he has just arrived. It seems he brings the nomination of one of these gentlemen to the post of Councillor in the Court of Appeal.
LA BOUZOLE. Ah, ah! And whose is the prize, in your opinion, Benoit? Vagret's?
RECORDER. That was my opinion. I hesitated a long time between him and his Honor the President, and I decided it would be Monsieur Vagret. But now I think I am wrong.
LA BOUZOLE. Do you think Monsieur Bunerat is appointed?
RECORDER. No, your worship. I feel very proud--I believe it is my employer who has the honor.
LA BOUZOLE. Monsieur Mouzon!
RECORDER. Yes, your worship.
LA BOUZOLE. What makes you think that?
RECORDER. His Honor the Attorney-General requested me to beg Monsieur Mouzon to come and speak to him before the rising of the Court.
LA BOUZOLE. My congratulations, my dear Monsieur Benoit.
_Madame Bunerat enters._