LULU. I feel as if I'd been whipped.
SCHÖN. (After bolting the door.) You will dance—as sure as I've taken the responsibility for you!
LULU. Before your bride?
SCHÖN. Have you a right to trouble yourself before whom? You've been engaged here. You receive your salary ...
LULU. Is that your affair?
SCHÖN. You dance for anyone who buys a ticket. Whom I sit with in my box has nothing to do with your business!
ALVA. I wish you'd stayed sitting in your box! (To Lulu.) Tell me, please, what I am to do. (A knock at the door.) There is the manager. (Calls.) Yes, in a moment! (To Lulu.) You won't compel us to break off the performance?
SCHÖN. (To Lulu.) Onto the stage with you!
LULU. Let me have just a moment! I can't now. I'm utterly miserable.
ALVA. The devil take the whole theater crowd!