SCHWARZ. Seems to me you look extra charming to-day.
LULU. (With a glance at the mirror.) Depends on what you expect.
SCHWARZ. Your hair breathes out a morning freshness....
LULU. I've just come out of the water.
SCHWARZ. (Approaching her.) I've an awful lot to do to-day.
LULU. That's what you say to yourself.
SCHWARZ. (Lays his palette and brushes down on the carpet, and sits on the edge of the couch.) What are you reading?
LULU. (Reads.) "Suddenly she heard an anchor of refuge come nodding up the stairs."
SCHWARZ. Who under the sun writes so absorbingly?
LULU. (Reading.) "It was the postman with a money-order." (Henriette, the servant, comes in, upper left, with a hat-box on her arm and a little tray of letters which she puts on the table.)