Why, Mimi! Why do you wait out there? Come in here where it's warm!

[MIMI comes in—DEVIL seats MIMI C. He regards them both with a satanic smile—begins to hum a tune and exits L., singing as he gets out; he laughs—his laugh dies away outside.

MIMI, sitting on small chair C. After a silence

Are you waiting for the painter, too, Madame?

ELSA, seated on couch

Yes.

MIMI

Yes—

[Pause.

He must have been on a spree last night.