SCHWARZ. (Getting up, apparently quiet.) You are right, quite right.

SCHÖN. (Gripping his hand.) Where are you going?

SCHWARZ. To speak with her.

SCHÖN. Right! (Accompanies him to the door, left. Coming back.) That was tough work. (After a pause, looking right.) He had taken her into the studio before though? (A fearful groan, left. He hurries to the door and finds it locked.) Open! Open the door!

LULU. (Stepping thru the hangings, right.) What's—

SCHÖN. Open it!

LULU. (Comes down the steps.) That is horrible.

SCHÖN. Have you an ax in the kitchen?

LULU. He'll open it right off—

SCHÖN. I can't kick it down.