great deal on their kitchen--

Justin
Who are devoted to their servants--

Virginie
And who leave them a pension. That is how middle-class people ought to
behave to their servants.

Therese
The lady of Picardy speaks well. But all the same, I pity mademoiselle
and young Minard, her suitor.

Justin
M. Mercadet is not going to give his daughter to a miserable
bookkeeper who earns no more than eighteen hundred francs a year; he
has better views for her than that.

Therese and Virginie
Who is the man he thinks of?

Justin
Yesterday two fine young gentlemen came here in a carriage, and their
groom told old Gruneau that one of them was going to marry Mlle.
Mercadet.

Virginie
You don't mean to say so! Are those gentlemen in yellow gloves, with
fine flowered waistcoats, going to marry mademoiselle?