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| Under cover of darkness, Pierre and Luare escape to the house where the sailing club live. The rest of the sailing club follows the next day. But - disaster - the aunt somehow discovers where the house is and comes, with all her baggage, to congratulate the 'happy couple'. Pierre and Laure pretend to have fallen out, which is not difficult since Laure, mortified by the aunt's presence, has locked herself in the bathroom and refuses to come out. The sailing club appears, actually, to be a group of underground political radicals. The house is run down and political slogans are daubed all ove the walls: Death to the Bourgeiosie [sic], Down with |
| Capitulating Liberalilsm, Kill the Pigs... and so on. One of the young women says, the aunt must be taken away or Laure will kill herself. Wait, says Pierre, doesn't that go against the main tenet of psychoanalysis - that one should confront one's neurosis rather than trying to run away from it, and aren't liberated minds the foundation stone of the revolution? Nils, who is quite preapared to equate the aunt with a whole system of oppression, interprets this to mean that Laure should confront her aunt and execute her by firing squad. This plan is generally accepted with enthusiasm. Pierre, realising the aunt in great danger, convinces her to leave with him during lunch and they return to the hotel. |
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