RODRIGO. (Hitting himself on the muscle.) Granite. Wrought-iron!
LULU. (Feeling by turns Rodrigo's arm and her own.) If you only didn't have such long ears—
FERDINAND. (Entering, rear-centre.) Doctor Schön!
RODRIGO. The rogue! (Jumps up, starts behind the fire-screen, recoils.) God preserve me! (Hides, lower left, behind the curtains.)
SCHIGOLCH. Give me the key! (Takes it and drags himself up the stairs.)
LULU. (Hugenberg having slid under the table.) Show him in!
HUGENBERG. (Under the front edge of the table-cloth, listening; to himself.) If he doesn't stay—we'll be alone.
LULU. (Poking him with her toe.) Sh! (Hugenberg disappears. Alva is shown in by Ferdinand.)
ALVA. (In evening dress.) Methinks the matinee will take place with burning lamps. I've— (Notices Schigolch painfully climbing the stairs.) What the —— is that?
LULU. An old friend of your father's.