1 She took her seat at table between old Monsieur Farival and Madame Ratignolle.
2 But he would not quarrel with so old a man as Monsieur Farival, so he quarreled with Mariequita.
3 Old Monsieur Farival was up, and was more than half inclined to do anything that suggested itself.
4 No one would listen to him but old Monsieur Farival, who went into convulsions over the droll story.
5 In reality he was annoyed at having old Monsieur Farival, who considered himself the better sailor of the two.
6 Monsieur Farival thought that Victor should have been taken out in mid-ocean in his earliest youth and drowned.
7 She would not consent to remain with Edna, for Monsieur Ratignolle was alone, and he detested above all things to be left alone.
8 Old Monsieur Farival talked incessantly of what he knew about handling a boat, and of what Beaudelet did not know on the same subject.
9 Old Monsieur Farival laughed sardonically at something as he looked at the sails, and Beaudelet swore at the old man under his breath.
10 Old Monsieur Farival, flurried, curious, stood up, but upon seeing that Robert had followed Mrs. Pontellier, he sank back into his seat.
11 "At four o'clock this afternoon, Monsieur Farival," Robert replied, in a high voice and with a lofty air, which reminded Edna of some gentleman on the stage.
12 Old Monsieur Farival, grandfather of the twins, grew indignant over the interruption, and insisted upon having the bird removed and consigned to regions of darkness.
13 The Ratignolles lived at no great distance from Edna's home, on the corner of a side street, where Monsieur Ratignolle owned and conducted a drug store which enjoyed a steady and prosperous trade.
14 Never would Edna Pontellier forget the shock with which she heard Madame Ratignolle relating to old Monsieur Farival the harrowing story of one of her accouchements, withholding no intimate detail.
15 But Monsieur Farival had assured him that his wife was only overcome with sleep and fatigue, that Tonie would bring her safely back later in the day; and he had thus been dissuaded from crossing the bay.
16 Add to this the violent opposition of her father and her sister Margaret to her marriage with a Catholic, and we need seek no further for the motives which led her to accept Monsieur Pontellier for her husband.
17 After Mrs. Pontellier had danced twice with her husband, once with Robert, and once with Monsieur Ratignolle, who was thin and tall and swayed like a reed in the wind when he danced, she went out on the gallery and seated herself on the low window-sill, where she commanded a view of all that went on in the hall and could look out toward the Gulf.
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