[Page 32] SCHWARZ. LULU. I don't know. LULU. SCHWARZ. Have you ever once loved—? SCHWARZ. LULU. I don't know. LULU. SCHWARZ. (Gets up, goes right, to himself.) She doesn't know! SCHWARZ. LULU. (Without moving.) I don't know. LULU. SCHWARZ. (Glancing at Goll.) He knows. SCHWARZ. LULU. (Nearer him.) What do you want to know? LULU. 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
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