CASTI-PIANI. Thank you. That's all I wanted to know. (Exit, upper left.)
RODRIGO. Such a hound! A fellow I could throw up onto the roof so he'd stick like a Limburger cheese!—Come back here, so I can wind your guts round your neck. That would be even better!
LULU. (Enters, lower left; merrily.) Where were you? I've been hunting for you like a pin.
RODRIGO. I've shown him what it means to start anything with me!
LULU. Whom?
RODRIGO. Your Casti-Piani! What made you tell him, you slut, that I wanted to seduce you?!
LULU. Did you not ask me to give myself to my deceased husband's son for twenty thousand in Jungfrau shares?
RODRIGO. Because it's your duty to take pity on the poor young fellow! You shot away his father before his nose in the very best years of life! But your Casti-Piani will think it over before he comes into my sight again. I gave him one in the basket that made the tripes fly to heaven like Roman candles. If you've got no better substitute for me, then I'm sorry ever to have had your favor!
LULU. Lady Geschwitz is in the fearfullest case. She twists herself up in fits. She's at the point of jumping into the water if you let her wait any longer.
RODRIGO. What's the beast waiting for?