An early Bresson film gives some hints about his later works of genius

Robert Bresson's 1944 film (his 2nd I think), Les Dames de Bois de Boulogne, doesn't quite have the open and improvisatory feeling or the interest on the outsiders and the lonely that we see in his later great films, such as Pickpocket or Diary of a Country Priest, but it's a good story - based on a short novel by Diderot, apparently - and shows us some of the talent that Bresson would develop further: the haunting closeups of faces in moments of torment, the careful pacing, and the occasional - I wish there had been more - plein air  scenes, particularly at the rendez-vous point in the Bois and the nigh-time scenes in the rain at a scruffy Paris "place." The story, briefly, involves a society woman who's tired of her on-going but going-nowhere relationship with a society gentleman; she tells him she wants to break if off, but, instead of pleading for her love he tells her that this is great, he was going to make the same suggestion, but they can continue as friends, etc. Obviously, she is insulted and horrified by his reaction and she sets off a plot against him. She arranges for him to meet "by chance" a pretty young friend of hers, and by making the friend "hard to get" she increases his ardour; he falls in love w/ the young friend and eventually they get married. One the night of the wedding, however, she tells him the truth: his new bride has been a cabaret dancer (horrors!) and I suspect the movie is playing it safe and we're to read between the lines and assume she was a prostitute (the title may give that away; I expect the Bois was a known pick-up place at that time). The plot moves along nicely, but a few key points are left murky, at least to me: How did this society woman know the nightclub dancer in the first place? How or why did she support the dancer (and her mother), paying their rent, etc., and for how long? Anyway, a good if not a great film and the first steps on a path that lead to some truly great works by Bresson.