![]() The best is to get him to imprison himself. Leni asks whether he is being kept prisoner, and Johanna responds: 'There are many ways of holding a man prisoner. The use of the key reveals that the door is bolted from the inside. Johanna goes to the room and knocks, but receives no answer. When she suggests that the family is perhaps his jailer and well as his prisoner, Leni angrily gives Johanna the key to Franz's room. She claims that Father merely wants to sacrifice her life and Werner's to Franz's protection as she claims Father has done. Johanna refuses to be bound to her father-in-law's wishes, and confronts the family's secret: that Franz, the elder son, still lives, and that he has been hidden within the house. Leni swears to obey her father's last wishes, but admits that she does not hold to her oaths. Father arrives and requests that the three take an oath: to remain confined to the house while Werner takes over the family business. The play opens in a large sitting-room with Leni, Werner, and Johanna awaiting Father von Gerlach, who has summoned a family meeting. ![]()
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