(He goes away with a menacing gesture.)
Lionnette (alone).
Adieu! (Shrugging her shoulders, and going towards her apartment.) The idiot! (She goes into her room.)
ACT II.
A small drawing-room, in great taste, combined with much luxury. General arrangements of the room rather adapted for repose and sleep—for tête-à-tête—than for general conversation and reception. A closed iron coffer, containing the million which has been spoken of in the First Act, placed on a table.
At the rising of the curtain, the drawing-room is empty. The stage remains thus unoccupied for about a moment. A curtain screen lowered at the left of the spectator, also one equally lowered at the right. A large screen lowered at the back, and concealing, like the other two, a door that can be locked.
Scene I.
Lionnette, veiled, enters at the left; draws back the screen, stops, looks around her; goes slowly to the door at the back, which she opens and shuts again, after having looked in. Ten o'clock strikes. She goes and looks through the door at the right, then through the glass between the two rooms over the mantel-piece, and presses the knob of the electric bell, which is by the side of the chimney-piece. Silence reigns for a few seconds. Lionnette, astonished, looks around her. Nourvady appears at the back of the room.
Scene II.
LIONNETTE, NOURVADY.