Therese was in despair.

She was asking herself at the foot of which post she should go to weep and repent, when her aunt would be no longer there.

She kept up an interminable discourse to prove to Madame Raquin that she should live.

She wept, she even became angry, bursting into her former fits of rage, opening the jaw of the paralysed woman as you open that of an animal which resists.

Madame Raquin held out, and an odious scene ensued.
Laurent remained absolutely neutral and indifferent.