LULU. What has it to do with you if he wastes his money with women or at cards?
RODRIGO. Do you absolutely want, then, to throw the last penny that his father earned by his paper into the jaws of this rapacious pack? You'll make four people happy if you'll not take things too exactly and sacrifice yourself for a beneficent purpose! Has it got to be only Casti-Piani forever?
LULU. (Lightly.) Shall I ask him perhaps to light you down the stairs?
RODRIGO. As you wish, countess! If I don't get the twenty thousand marks by to-morrow evening, I make a statement to the police and your court has an end. Auf Wiedersehen! (Heilmann enters, breathless, upper right.)
LULU. You're looking for Miss Magelone? She's not here.
HEILMANN. No, I'm looking for something else—
RODRIGO. (Taking him to the entry-door, opposite him.) Second door on the left.
LULU. (To Rodrigo.) Did you learn that from your bride?
HEILMANN. (Bumping into Puntschu in the doorway.) Excuse me, my angel!
PUNTSCHU. Ah, it's you. Miss Magelone's waiting for you in the lift.