[Pg 53] Geschwitz. (Shuddering.) How can such a monstrosity save your life? I don't understand that. You have conjured up to torture me the most terrible fate that can fall upon outlawed me! Geschwitz. LULU. (Watchful.) Perhaps the encounter will cure you. LULU. GESCHWITZ. (Sighing.) O Lulu, if an eternal retribution does exist, I hope I may not have to answer then for you. I cannot make myself believe that no God watches over us. Yet you are probably right that there is nothing there, for how can an insignificant worm like me have provoked his wrath so as to experience only horror there where all living creation swoons for bliss? GESCHWITZ. LULU. You needn't complain. When you are happy you're a hundred thousand times happier than one of us ordinary mortals ever is! LULU. are GESCHWITZ. I know that too! I envy no one! But I am still waiting. You have deceived me so often already. GESCHWITZ. LULU. I am yours, my darling, if you quiet Mr. Acrobat till to-morrow. He only wants his vanity placated. You must beseech him to take pity on you. LULU. GESCHWITZ. And to-morrow? GESCHWITZ. LULU. I await you, my heart. I shall not open my eyes till you come: see no chambermaid, receive no hair-dresser, not open my eyes before you are with me. LULU. GESCHWITZ. Then let him come.
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