Simone Signoret credited as playing...
Nicole Horner
- Michel Delassalle: [embarrassing Christina in the dining room while she is trying to eat some distasteful fish] Everyone is looking at you. Swallow.
- Nicole Horner: It's disgusting!
- Michel Delassalle: Sorry?
- Nicole Horner: [angrily] Some things are hard to swallow, and I'm not talking about the fish.
- Christina Delassalle: Don't you believe in Hell?
- Nicole Horner: Not since I was seven.
- Christina Delassalle: I do.
- M.Drain, professeur: [Noticing Nicole wearing sun glasses] Do your eyes hurt you, dear colleague?
- Nicole Horner: I hurt myself getting up.
- M.Drain, professeur: You're up early. Last night, I was doing my rounds about 4:00 am and I heard screams coming out of your room. The chaste woman loves to contemplate dawn, doesn't she?
- Nicole Horner: You spent too much time with the Jesuits.
- Michel Delassalle: A sick person shouldn't worry about her appearance.
- Christina Delassalle: I'm not sick.
- Nicole Horner: She's delicate, you know it.
- Michel Delassalle: Delicate? Yes, when she came from Caracas. Today, she's a cute little ruin. She doesn't risk anything. Ruins are indestructible. She'll bury us all. Won't you, my little ruin?
- Nicole Horner: [handing Christina the phone] Here, take it. It doesn't bite. It doesn't slap, either.
- Christina Delassalle: There is only one possible end. We are monsters. I don't like monsters.
- Nicole Horner: If it's only him, I feel better. I'll save the grain of sand falling from the hands of providence for my morality lessons.
- Christina Delassalle: So it's a coincidence?
- Nicole Horner: A coincidence, yes.
- Christina Delassalle: And Fichet. Was his being at the morgue a coincidence? And the suit. And the hotel. And now the children! Is it a coincidence that it's getting closer and closer?