We're ready. Take us away!
JAFFRAY.
I must really ask you, ladies and gentlemen, to take it quietly for a few minutes.
ALL.
Take it quietly! What for?
JAFFRAY.
The staircase isn't just the thing for ladies and gentlemen at the present moment. I shall have to ask the ladies and gentlemen to use the Escape.
ALL.
[Turning to the window.] The Escape! is it? Where?