LULU. I must first accustom myself to the light.
ALVA. She has kept herself strictly to her part.
SCHÖN. (To Alva.) You must get more out of your performers! You don't know enough yet about the technique. (To Lulu.) What do you come as now?
LULU. As a flower-girl.
SCHÖN. (To Alva.) In tights?
ALVA. No. In a skirt to the ankles.
SCHÖN. It would have been better if you hadn't ventured on symbolism.
ALVA. I look at a dancer's feet.
SCHÖN. The point is, what the public looks at. An apparition like her has no need, thank heaven, of your symbolic mummery.
ALVA. The public doesn't look as if it was bored!