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 back wall over the fire-place, Lulu's picture as Pierrot in a magnificent frame. Right, a tall mirror; a couch in front of it. Left, an ebony writing-table. Centre, a few chairs around a little Chinese table._ _Lulu stands motionless before the mirror, in a green silk morning-dress. She frowns, passes a hand over her forehead, feels her cheeks, and draws back from the mirror with a discouraged, almost angry, look. Frequently turning round, she goes left, opens a casket on the writing-table, lights herself a cigarette, looks for a book among those that are lying on the table, takes one, and lies down on the couch opposite the mirror. After reading a moment, she lets the book sink, and nods seriously to herself in the glass; then resumes reading. Schwarz enters, left, palette and brushes in hand, and bends over Lulu, kisses her on the forehead, and goes up the steps, right._ SCHWARZ. (Turning in the door-way.) Eve! LULU. (Smiling.) At your orders? SCHWARZ. Seems to me you look extra charming to-day. LULU. (With a glance at the mirror.) Depends on what you expect. SCHWARZ. Your hair breathes out a morning freshness.... LULU. I've just come out of the water. SCHWARZ. (Approaching her.) I've an awful lot to do to-day. LULU. That's what you say to yourself. SCHWARZ. (Lays his palette and brushes down on the carpet, and sits on the edge of the couch.) What are you reading? LULU. (Reads.) "Suddenly she heard an anchor of refuge come nodding up the stairs." SCHWARZ. Who under the sun writes so absorbingly? LULU. (Reading.) "It was the postman with a money-order." (Henriette, the servant, comes in, upper left, with a hat-box on her arm and a little tray of letters which she puts on the table.) HENRIETTE. The mail. I'm going to take your hat to the milliner, madam. Anything else? LULU. No. (Schwarz signs to her to go out, which she does, slyly smiling.)