Here is the opening.

The father is the man of the fine carriage; the mother is the lady who came with the handsome young man.

Ha! ha! I can well believe the dear old dame wanted for nothing.

She had a secret worth a farm in Brie.

But the old lady was extravagant; her expenses and her demands have increased year by year.
Poor humanity! She has leaned upon the staff too heavily, and broken it.
She has threatened.