SCHWARZ. You can't understand a joke.
LULU. Oh, yes I can. I understand everything. Just you leave me be. You'll get nothing at all from me by force. Go to your work. You have no right to molest me. (Flees behind the ottoman.) Sit down behind your easel!
SCHWARZ. (Trying to get around the ottoman.) As soon as I've punished you—you wayward, capricious—
LULU. But you must have me, first! Go away. You can't catch me. In long clothes I'd have fallen into your clutches long ago—but in the Pierrot!
SCHWARZ. (Throwing himself across the ottoman.) I've got you!
LULU. (Hurls the tiger-skin over his head.) Good-night! (Jumps over the platform and climbs up the step-ladder.) I can see away over all the cities of the earth.
SCHWARZ. (Unrolling himself from the rug.) This old skin!!
LULU. I reach up into heaven, and stick the stars in my hair.
SCHWARZ. (Clambering after her.) I'll shake it till you fall off!
LULU. If you don't stop, I'll throw the ladder down. (Climbing higher.) Will you let go of my legs? God save the Poles! (Makes the ladder fall over, jumps onto the platform, and as Schwarz picks himself up from the floor, throws the Spanish screen down on his head. Hastening down-stage, by the easels.) I told you that you weren't going to get me.