4.
Frédéric: Then you don’t agree that a man may love… a woman?
Madame Arnoux: If she is free, he marries her; if she belongs to another, he leaves her alone.

5.
Frédéric:Then happiness is unattainable?
Madame Arnoux: No. But it is never to be found in falsehood, anxiety, and remorse.
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6.
Frédéric: What does that matter, if it affords sublime joys?
Madame Arnoux: The price of the experience is too high.

7.
Frédéric: So virtue is nothing but cowardice?
Madame Arnoux: I should prefer to call it perspicacity. Even for women who forget duty or religion, mere common sense may be enough. Selfishness makes a solid foundation for good behavior.

8.
Frédéric: Oh, what a collection of middle-class maxims!
Madame Arnoux: But I don’t claim to be a great lady.

9.
Child Mamma, are you coming down to dinner?
Madame Arnoux: Yes, in a minute.

10.
Frédéric got up; at the same time Marthe appeared. He could not make up his mind to go.
Frédéric: Then those women you were speaking of are utterly heartless?
Madame Arnoux: No, but they are deaf when necessary.

11.
And she stood there, in the doorway of her room, with her two children at her sides. He bowed without a word. She acknowledged his bow in silence.