MAGELONE. But the bank has won, too! How is that possible?
ALVA. It is colossal, where all the money comes from!
CASTI-PIANI. Let us not ask! Enough that we need not spare the champagne.
HEILMANN. I can pay for a supper in a respectable restaurant afterwards, anyway!
ALVA. To the buffet, ladies! Come to the buffet! (All exeunt, lower left.)
RODRIGO. (Holding Lulu back.) Un momong, my heart. Have you read my billet-doux?
LULU. Threaten me with discovery as much as you like! I have no more twenty thousands to dispose of.
RODRIGO. Don't lie to me, you punk! You've still got forty thousand in Jungfrau-stock. Your so-called spouse has just been bragging of it himself!
LULU. Then turn to him with your blackmailing! It's all one to me what he does with his money.
RODRIGO. Thank you! With that blockhead I'd need twice twenty-four hours to make him grasp what I was talking about. And then come his explanations, that make one deathly sick; and meanwhile my bride writes me “It's all up!” and I can just hang a hurdy-gurdy over my shoulder.