You see that the guilty are always punished." Grivet triumphed.

Olivier sneered.
"Then, they put the magpie in prison," said he.
"That is not what M.Grivet meant to say," answered Camille, annoyed to see his chief turned into ridicule.

"Mother, give us the dominoes." While Madame Raquin went to fetch the box, the young man, addressing Michaud, continued: "Then you admit the police are powerless, that there are murderers walking about in the sunshine ?" "Unfortunately, yes," answered the commissary.
"It is immoral," concluded Grivet.
During this conversation, Therese and Laurent had remained silent.

They had not even smiled at the folly of Grivet.

Both leaning with their arms on the table, looking slightly pale, and with a vague expression in their eyes, listened.