Poznámky
Marie turns Hecht's «elle est dans tous ces petits papiers» (she is up to her ears in papers) into the idiom être dans les petits papiers de quelqu'un, to be in someone's good books. ↩
A pun on the painter Manet and the writing on the wall at Belshazzar's feast, Mané, Thécel, Pharès (Daniel 5:25-28), which foretold the fall of the kingdom. ↩