ESCERNY. Do you?
ALVA. Don't you?
ESCERNY. I find she looks too body-less in the white tulle.
ALVA. I find she looks too animal in the rose-tulle.
ESCERNY. I don't find that.
ALVA. The white tulle expresses more the child-like in her nature.
ESCERNY. The rose tulle expresses more the female in her nature. (The electric bell rings over the door. Alva jumps up.)
ALVA. For heaven's sake, what is wrong?
ESCERNY. (Getting up too.) What's the matter? (The electric bell goes on ringing to the close of the dialogue.)
ALVA. Something's gone wrong there—