Claire, visible only to the audience, leans against the kitchen door and listens to her sister. Returning to the room, Solange cries for poor Claire. Claire enters the room, wearing the white dress. Claire says for "Claire" to pour her a cup of tea. Solange protests and tiredly sits down, but Claire insists. She tells "Claire" to stand up straight and to "represent" her in the world. She lifts Solange up and makes her repeat after her "Madame must have her tea" and other corresponding sentences. Solange brings in the tea and Claire drinks it. She comments on the end of the theatrical production—the orchestra plays, the attendant raises the red velvet curtain, and Madame descends the stairs and gets into her car with Monsieur. She is dead, but rings the bell, enters the apartment, and finds Madame dead. Her two maids are alive, however, risen up from Madame's form, now free. Solange proclaims themselves, "beautiful, joyous, drunk, and free!