SCHWARZ. What are you waiting for? LULU. Please ... SCHWARZ. What is it? LULU. Shut =his= eyes. SCHWARZ. You make me shiver. LULU. Not nearly so much as you make =me=! SCHWARZ. I? LULU. You're a born criminal. SCHWARZ. Doesn't this moment touch you at all, then? LULU. It hits me, too, some. SCHWARZ. Please, just you keep still now! LULU. It hits you some, too. SCHWARZ. You really didn't need to say that to a man, in such a moment. LULU. =Please ...!= SCHWARZ. Do what you think necessary. I don't know how. LULU. (Left of Goll.) He's looking at me. SCHWARZ. (Right of Goll.) And at me, too. LULU. You're a coward! SCHWARZ. (Shuts Goll's eyes with his handkerchief.) It's the first time in my life that anyone has called me that. LULU. Didn't you do it to your mother? SCHWARZ. (Nervously.) No. LULU. You were away, perhaps. SCHWARZ. No! LULU. Or else you were afraid? SCHWARZ. (Violently.) No! LULU. (Shivering, backward.) I didn't mean to insult you. 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?