[Pause during which they study each other.]
JULIA. Why don't you sit down?
JEAN. It wouldn't be proper in your presence.
JULIA. But if I order you to do it?
JEAN. Then I obey.
JULIA. Sit down, then!—But wait a moment! Can you give me something to drink first?
JEAN. I don't know what we have got in the icebox. I fear it is nothing but beer.
JULIA. And you call that nothing? My taste is so simple that I prefer it to wine.
JEAN. [Takes a bottle of beer from the icebox and opens it; gets a glass and a plate from the cupboard, and serves the beer] Allow me!
JULIA. Thank you. Don't you want some yourself?