SCHIGOLCH. How much does he get?
LULU. Ask him if it interests you. (To Bob.) Shut the doors. (Bob goes out lower left, shutting the door behind him.)
SCHIGOLCH. (Sitting down.) The truth is, I'm in need of money. I've hired a flat for my mistress.
LULU. Have you taken another mistress here, too?
SCHIGOLCH. She's from Frankfort. In her youth she was mistress to the King of Naples. She tells me every day she was once very bewitching.
LULU. (Outwardly with complete composure.) Does she need the money very badly?
SCHIGOLCH. She wants to fit up her own apartments. Such sums are of no account to you. (Lulu is suddenly overcome with a fit of weeping.)
LULU. (Flinging herself at Schigolch.) O God Omnipotent!
SCHIGOLCH. (Patting her.) Well? What is it now?
LULU. (Sobbing violently.) It's too horrible!