SCHÖN. Just the day when I must be at the exchange. You know that I'm not free to-day. All my property is drifting on the waves.
LULU. I'd sooner be dead and buried than let my life be embittered so by my property.
SCHÖN. Who takes life lightly does not take death hard.
LULU. As a child I always had the most horrible fear of death.
SCHÖN. That is just why I married you.
LULU. (With her arms round his neck.) You're in bad humor. You give yourself too much work. For weeks and months I've seen nothing of you.
SCHÖN. (Stroking her hair.) Your light-heartedness should cheer up my old days.
LULU. Indeed, you didn't marry me at all.
SCHÖN. Who else did I marry then?
LULU. I married you!