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Act II is a capitally arranged interior of the inn, with the wooden shoes of the servant maid clopping around, where the inevitable happens. Hanna Elias, accompanied by a young Russian girl whose German accent furnishes mild humour promptly swoops down on the anæmic painter. There is brief resistance on his part. She tells him she can't, can't live without him oh, thrice-familiar feminine music! and with a double sob that shakes you in your seat the pair embrace. Curtain. The next act is frittered away in talk, the principal object seemingly to show how much the sculptor hates Hanna. In Act IV Gabriel is ill. He has had a fall, but it is really a heart attack. A doctor, an old friend, is summoned from a neighbouring island. Unfortunately Mrs. Schilling, the neglected wife is informed by the not very tactful doctor that her husband is ill. She rushes up from Berlin, and the best, indeed the only, dramatic scene then ensues. She is not permitted to see the sick man. She demands the reason. She is naturally not told, for Hanna is nursing him. She can't understand, and it is the difficult task of Lucie Heil, the violinist, to get her away before the fat is in the fire. Unfortunately, at that critical moment, Hanna Elias walks calmly from Gabriel's sleeping chamber. The row is soon on. Hanna was enacted by an emotional actress, Tilla Durieux, whose personality is forthright, whose methods are natural. (Her Hedda Gabler is strong.) She dressed the character after the approved Friedrichstrasse style. You must know that the artistic Bohemienne wears her hair plastered at the sides of her head
Although the grandmother seemed to feel so little grief, I went to see her after the funeral. "It is all over, Madame Durieux," I said. "But I have secured the grave for a period of five years for the poor boy." She turned towards me, quite comic in her vexation. "What madness!" she exclaimed. "Now that he's with the bon Dieu he won't want for anything.
Departing from the fair alone, he met up with Jean Durieux, to whom he said, ``That -of a Meilhan asked me to have a drink, and afterwards I had colic, and wanted to vomit. Arrived home, Lacoste said to Pierre Cournet that he had been seized by a colic which made him ill all over, plaguing him, giving him a desire to vomit which he could not satisfy.
It was through going to order some vests and socks for my men that I had made the acquaintance of Mere Tricottin, as she was called. At her request I had engaged her grandson, Victor Durieux, as an errand boy, and the poor old woman had been so grateful that I dared not go now to tell her of his death. Madame Guerard went for me to the Rue de Vaugirard, where the old woman lived.
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