Joseph (with a gesture of horror)
Ah!--she prefers a criminal to me!

(Jules is put in charge of the agents.)


Curtain to the First Act.



ACT II


SCENE FIRST

(The setting is a drawing-room in the Rousseau mansion. Antoine is
looking through the newspapers.)

Antoine and Justine.


Justine
Well, Antoine, have you read the papers?

Antoine
I am reading them. Isn't it a pity that we servants cannot learn,
excepting through the papers, what is going on in the trial of M.
Jules?