ALVA. You know that it was always my wish to write a piece for you.
LULU. I am not at all made for the stage, however.
ALVA. You came into the world a dancer!
LULU. Why don't you write your things at least as interesting as life is?
ALVA. Because if we did no man would believe us.
LULU. If I didn't know more about acting than the people on the stage do, what might not have happened to me?
ALVA. I've provided your part with all the impossibilities imaginable, though.
LULU. With hocus-pocus like that no dog is lured from the stove in the real world.
ALVA. It's enough for me that the public finds itself most tremendously stirred up.
LULU. But I'd like to find myself most tremendously stirred up. (Drinks.)