I ask you, madame, what you have done to deserve his respect?
You were an ungrateful and undutiful daughter; you did not think of the shame and sorrow you prepared for your parents, when you arranged your flight with the gardener.

I succeeded in rescuing you from dishonor by marrying you to a brave and noble cavalier.

It depended upon you entirely to gain his love and respect, but you forgot your duty as a wife, as you had forgotten it as a daughter.

You had no pity with the faults and follies of your husband, you drove him to despair.

At last, to drown his sorrows, he became a drunkard, and you, instead of remaining at his side to encourage and counsel him, deserted him, and so heartlessly exposed his shame that I, to put an end to the scandal, permitted your divorce.