AXEL. [To CECILIA] Have you known that woman before?
CECILIA. No.
MARIE. You ought to be ashamed of yourself? I simply didn't recognise you at first because of your swell clothes——
AXEL gazes intently at CECILIA.
CECILIA. [To AXEL] Come—I'll go with you!
AXEL. [Preoccupied] In a moment! Just wait a while! I am only going in to write another letter—But now we'll close the door first of all.
MARIE. No, thank you, I don't want to be locked in as she was a while ago.
AXEL. [Interested] Was the door locked?
CECILIA. [To MARIE] You don't dare say that the door was locked!
MARIE. As you expected it to be locked, I suppose you had tried to lock it and had not succeeded——