CASTI-PIANI. ALVA. (To Lulu.) Brilliantly! It's going brilliantly! Geschwitz is wagering her last shirt. Puntschu has promised me ten more Jungfrau-shares. Steinherz is making her little gains and profits. (Exit, lower right.) ALVA. LULU. I in a bordell?—(She reads the paper she holds, and laughs madly.) [Pg 40] LULU. [Pg 40] ALVA. (Coming back with a cash-box in his hand.) Aren't you going to play, too? ALVA. LULU. Oh, yes, surely—why not? LULU. ALVA. By the way, it's in the Berliner Tageblatt to-day that Alfred Hugenberg has hurled himself over the stairs in prison. ALVA. LULU. Is he too in prison? LULU. ALVA. Only in a sort of house of detention. (Exit, rear. Lulu is about to follow, but Countess Geschwitz meets her in the door-way.) ALVA. GESCHWITZ. You are going because I come? GESCHWITZ. LULU. (Resolutely.) No, God knows. But when you come then I go. LULU.
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