LULU--And whatever else you want! Whatever I have. SCHIGOLCH--It’ll soon be ten years since we knew each other. LULU--Is that all?--But you’ve got a mistress. SCHIGOLCH--My Frankforter is no longer of to-day. LULU--But then swear! SCHIGOLCH--Haven’t I always kept my word to you? LULU--Swear that you’ll look after him. SCHIGOLCH--I’ll look after him. LULU--Swear it to me! Swear it to me! SCHIGOLCH--[_Puts his hand on her ankle._] By everything that’s holy! To-night, if he comes---- LULU--By everything that’s holy!--How that cools me! SCHIGOLCH--How this heats me! LULU--Oh, do drive straight home. They’ll come in half an hour! Take a carriage! SCHIGOLCH--I’m going. LULU--Quick! Please!-- --All-powerful---- SCHIGOLCH--Why do you stare at me so again already? LULU--Nothing-- ... SCHIGOLCH--Well? Is your tongue frozen on you? LULU--My garter’s broken. SCHIGOLCH--What if it is? Is that all? LULU--What does that augur? SCHIGOLCH--What does it? I’ll fasten it for you if you’ll keep still. LULU--That augurs misfortune! SCHIGOLCH--[_Yawning._] Not for you, child. Cheer up, I’ll look after him! [_Exit._ LULU _puts her left foot on a foot-stool, fastens her garter, and goes out into the card-room. Then_ RODRIGO _is cuffed in from the dining-room, lower left, by_ CASTI-PIANI.] RODRIGO--You can treat me decently anyway! CASTI-PIANI--[_Still perfectly unemotional._] Whatever would induce me to do that? I wish to know what you said to her here a little while ago. RODRIGO--Then you can be very fond of me! CASTI-PIANI--Will you bandy words with me, dog? You demanded that she go up in the lift with you! RODRIGO--That’s a shameless, perfidious lie! CASTI-PIANI--She told me so herself. You threatened to denounce her if she didn’t go with you.--Shall I shoot you on the spot? RODRIGO--The shameless hussy! As if anything like that could occur to me!--Even if I should want to have her, God knows I don’t first need to threaten her with prison! CASTI-PIANI--Thank you. That’s all I wanted to know. [_Exit, upper left._] RODRIGO--Such a hound! A fellow I could throw up onto the roof so he’d stick like a Limburger cheese!--Come back here, so I can wind your guts round your neck. That would be even better! LULU--[_Enters, lower left; merrily._] Where were you? I’ve been hunting for you like a pin. RODRIGO--I’ve shown =him= what it means to start anything with me! LULU--Whom? RODRIGO--Your Casti-Piani! What made you tell him, you slut, that I wanted to seduce you?! LULU--Did you not demand that I give myself to my late husband’s son for twenty thousand in Jungfrau-shares?