nto bad company--you know the people. I am nothing to him but a
woman, just woman. He makes me feel so ridiculous. He will be prouder
of me. He doesn't know any differences. I'm thinking my head off, day
and night, how to shake him up. In my despair I dance the can-can. He
yawns; and drivels something about obscenity.

SCHOEN. Nonsense. He is an artist, though.

LULU. At least he believes he is.

SCHOEN. That's the chief thing!

LULU. When _I_ pose for him.... He believes, too, that he's a famous
man.

SCHOEN. We =have= made him one.

LULU. He believes everything. He's as mistrustful as a thief, and lets
himself be lied to, till one loses all respect! When we first knew each
other I informed him I had never yet loved-- (Schoen falls into an
easy-chair.) Otherwise he would really have taken me for a fallen
woman!

SCHOEN. You make God knows what exorbitant demands on =legitimate=
relations!

LULU. I make no exorbitant demands. Often I even dream still of Goll.

SCHOEN. He was, at any rate, not banal!

LULU. He is there, as if he had never been away. Only he walks as tho
in his socks. He isn't angry with me; he's awfully sad. And then he is
fearful, as tho he were there without the permission of the police.
Otherwise, he feels at ease with us. Only he can't quite get over my
having thrown away so much money since--

SCHOEN. You yearn for the whip once more?

LULU. Maybe. I don't dance any more.

SCHOEN. Teach him to do it.

LULU. A waste of trouble.

SCHOEN. Out of a hundred women, ninety educate their husbands to suit
themselves.

LULU. He loves me.

SCHOEN. That's fatal, of course.

LULU. He loves me--

SCHOEN. That is an unbridgeable abyss.

LULU. He doesn't know me, but he loves me! If he had anything like a
correct idea of me, he'd tie a stone around my neck and sink me in the
sea where it's deepest.

SCHOEN. Let's finish this? (He gets up.)

LULU. As you say.

SCHOEN. I've married you off. Twice I have married you off. You live in
luxury. I've created a position for your husband. If that doesn't
satisfy you, and he laughs in his sleeve at it, I don't pretend to meet
ideal claims; but--leave me out of the game, out of it!

LULU. (Resolutely.) If I belong to any person on this earth, I belong
to you. Without you I'd be--I won't say where. You took me by the hand,
gave me food to eat, had me dressed,--when I was going to steal your
watch. Do you think that can be forgotten? Anybody els