LULU. (To Casti-Piani.) Have I hurt you again in any way? LULU. CASTI-PIANI. (Since Geschwitz does not stir.) Are you deaf? (Geschwitz, sighing deeply, goes out, rear.) CASTI-PIANI. LULU. Just say straight out how much you want. LULU. CASTI-PIANI. With money you can no longer serve me. CASTI-PIANI. LULU. What makes you think that we have no more money? LULU. CASTI-PIANI. You handed out the last bit of it to me yesterday. CASTI-PIANI. LULU. If you're sure of that then I suppose it's so. LULU. CASTI-PIANI. You're down on the bare ground, you and your writer. [Pg 34] CASTI-PIANI. [Pg 34] LULU. Then why all the words?—If you want to have me for yourself you need not first threaten me with execution. LULU. CASTI-PIANI. I know that. But I've told you more than once that you won't be my downfall. I haven't sucked you dry because you loved me, but loved you in order to suck you. Bianetta is more to my taste from top to bottom than you. You set out the choicest sweetmeats, and after one has frittered his time away at them he finds he's hungrier than before. You've
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