Unlike Garcin, however, she doesn’t have any questions to ask the valet. He despairs, but the door soon opens and in walks the valet, bringing with him Inez, a women who, like Garcin, is supposed to stay in this room. Garcin lasts about, oh, two seconds alone before trying to summon the valet back. Before he exits, he informs Garcin that he can be summoned via the call-button, but that the call-button is temperamental and doesn’t always work. The two of men converse cryptically about this place and the rules (no mirrors, no nighttime, no sleep) while Garcin guesses about the methods of "torture." The valet reveals that, beyond the door, there are simply more passages and more rooms. Garcin is extremely surprised at the room’s appearance – it seems he was expecting something very different. Enter through a door a valet and a man named Joseph Garcin. The scene is a drawing room with Second-Empire French furnishings, including three couches and a bronze mantelpiece.
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