← It’s the valet’s fault, he should have introduced us. 🔊✎
← A silence. GARCIN goes and sits down, INÈS starts pacing again. GARCIN’s mouth twitches, INÈS gives him a look, he buries his face in his hands. Enter ESTELLE and THE VALET. ✎
← But these couches are so ugly. And look how they’re arranged, it’s like it’s New Year’s Day and I’m making my duty call to Aunt Marie. I suppose we have one each. This one’s mine? 🔊✎
← The wind’s blowing my sister’s veil around. She’s doing what she can to cry. 🔊✎
← The case is closed. You can take off your torturer’s face now. 🔊✎
← INÈS, still behind ESTELLE’s back, gestures to GARCIN that he should move away. ✎
← Leave her alone! Leave her alone! Don’t you touch her with your dirty man’s hands! 🔊✎
← (Pause. He lets go of ESTELLE’s shoulders.) ✎
← You don’t have a coward’s chin, you don’t have a coward’s mouth, you don’t have a coward’s hair. I look at your chin and your mouth and your hair, and I love you. 🔊✎
← I’ve seen Inès’s claws, I’m scared to be alone with her. 🔊✎