SCHWARZ. She's still alive.

LULU. Then you still have somebody.

SCHWARZ. She's as poor as a beggar.

LULU. I know what that is.

SCHWARZ. Don't laugh at me!

LULU. Now I am rich--

SCHWARZ. It gives me cold shudders-- (Goes right.) She can't help it!

LULU. (To herself.) What'll I do?

SCHWARZ. (To himself.) Absolutely depraved! (They look at each other
mistrustfully. Schwarz goes over to her and grips her hand.) Look me in
the eyes!

LULU. (Apprehensively.) What do you want?

SCHWARZ. (Takes her to the ottoman and makes her sit next to him.) Look
me in the eyes.

LULU. I see myself in them as Pierrot.

SCHWARZ. (Shoves her from him.) Confounded dancer-ing!

LULU. I must change my clothes--

SCHWARZ. (Holds her back.) One question--

LULU. I can't answer it.

SCHWARZ. Can you speak the truth?

LULU. I don't know.

SCHWARZ. Do you believe in a Creator?

LULU. I don't know.

SCHWARZ. Can you swear on anything?

LULU. I don't know. Leave me alone. You're mad.

SCHWARZ. What do you believe in, then?

LULU. I don't know.

SCHWARZ. Have you no soul, then?

LULU. I don't know.

SCHWARZ. Have you ever once loved--?

LULU. I don't know.

SCHWARZ. (Gets up, goes right, to himself.) She doesn't know!

LULU. (Without moving.) I don't know.

SCHWARZ. (Glancing at Goll.) He knows.

LULU. (Nearer him.) What do you want to know?

SCHWARZ. (Angrily.) Go, get dressed! (Lulu goes into the bed-room. To
Goll.) Would I could change with you, you dead man! I give her back to
you. I give my youth to you, too. I lack the courage and the faith.
I've had to wait patiently too long. It's too late for me. I haven't
grown up big enough for happiness. I have a hellish fear of it. Wake
up! I didn't touch her. He opens his mouth. Mouth open and eyes shut,
like the children. With me it's the other way round. Wake up, wake up!
(Kneels down and binds his handkerchief round the dead man's head.)
Here I beseech Heaven to make me =able= to be happy--to give me the
strength and the freedom of soul to be just a weeny mite happy! For
=her sake, only for her sake=. (Lulu comes out of the bed-room,
completely dressed, her hat on, and her right hand under her left arm.)

LULU. (Raising her left arm, to Schwarz.) Would you hook me up here? My
hand trembles.

CURTAIN

ACT II

_A very ornamental parlor. Entrance-door rear, left. Curtained
entrances right and left, steps leading up to the right one. On the