.] Take it back! What do I need it for now? Why should I go out and make purchases? For whom, then?
[Takes off her mantle, flings her parasol aside, sits down on the sofa and begins to cry.
SALOME. O great heaven! is this not torture? I get it on both sides. [
Turning to Nato
:] Be still, you stupid girl!
NATO. For this I have learned so much; for this you have brought me up so grandly and given yourself so much trouble and care! [
Weeping
.] Is he, also, to take me walking on the boulevard? Is he to accompany me to the club and to the theatre?
[Sobbing.
SALOME. Be quiet! Enough! Give yourself no unnecessary heartache.