She was unpicking the lining of a dress, and the strips were scattered around her. Madame Bovary senior was plying her scissor without looking up, and Charles, in his list slippers and his old brown surtout that he used as a dressing-gown, sat with both hands in his pockets, and did not speak either; near them Berthe, in a little white pinafore, was raking sand in the walks with her spade.
Elle décousait la doublure d’une robe, dont les bribes s’éparpillaient autour d’elle; la mère Bovary, sans lever les yeux, faisait crier ses ciseaux, et Charles, avec ses pantoufles de lisière et sa vieille redingote brune qui lui servait de robe de chambre, restait les deux mains dans ses poches et ne parlait pas non plus; près d’eux, Berthe, en petit tablier blanc, raclait avec sa pelle le sable des allées.