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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? Justine And yet the master and mistress and Mme. du Brocard, their sister, know nothing. M. Jules has been for three months—in—what do they call it?—in close confinement. Antoine The arrest of the young man has evidently attracted great attention— Justine It seems absurd to think that a young man who had nothing to do but amuse himself, who would some day inherit his aunt's income of twenty thousand francs, and his father's and mother's fortune, which is quite double that amount, shoul. . . Read More