Widow
Go to whatever hurries you.
(Enter Lucas.)
Lucas
O fortune, fortune, when will I catch you? You always fly from me.
Widow
Always fortune on the brain?
Lucas Yes, for it hates me. I do this, I do that—labor all my life. Labor for this one, labor for that one. I work for thirty years. After thirty years, here I am. To labor for another, it's small palliative. To work for oneself, that takes courage. To even everything up wouldn't it be right for the others, in their turn, to work for me?
Widow
Lucas wishes to reach the heights.
Lucas Suddenly, yes, to find myself there, as in a miracle. I've got the character for it—no matter how hazardous. I gamble, win some, lose some, it's only that it doesn't make one happy. I've played double or nothing out of boredom. I have forty tickets for this lottery.
Widow
That's a very prudent way to place money.
Lucas Yeah. Because I love big lotteries. I am going to make my fortune that way.
Widow You will make your fortune through your daughter. The Baron loves her more and more.