Then there was confusion among the women: they all began to run home with the terror of housekeepers who had been led astray by too much coffee and too much tattle, and one heard nothing more than this restless cry, pregnant with the quarrels:
Alors, il se produisit une débandade parmi les femmes, toutes couraient, toutes rentraient chez elles, dans un effarement de ménageres que trop de café et trop de cancans avaient mises en faute. Et l'on n'entendait plus que ce cri inquiet, gros de querelles: