Blanche lights a candle and prepares the drinks, saying they must celebrate and forget their worries on their last night together. She suggests that they pretend to be on a date at an artists' café in Paris. She asks Mitch if he speaks French. After he tells her he doesn't, she teases him in the language he can't understand, asking, “Do you want to sleep together this evening? You don't understand? What a shame!” Blanche grows rapidly more amorous. Mitch won't take his coat off because he's embarrassed about his perspiration, so she takes it off for him. She tries to put Mitch at ease by admiring his imposing physique. When he asks her what she weighs, she tells him to guess. He picks her up, and the game leads to a brief and somewhat clumsy embrace. Blanche stops him from putting any more moves on her, claiming she has “old-fashioned ideals.” She sarcastically rolls her eyes as she offers this remark, but Mitch cannot see her face.