"Because Madame Colleville has taken the shortest way to it--through the sacristy." Thuillier.

"I am too much Colleville's friend not to beg you, Monsieur Fleury, to speak respectfully of his wife." Phellion.

"A defenceless woman should never be made the subject of conversation here--" Vimeux.

"All the more because the charming Madame Colleville won't invite Fleury to her house.

He backbites her in revenge." Fleury.