"Roll up, roll up for the menagerie" "Proud gentlemen and life-loving ladies" "Fire your desire and chill your spines" "At the spectacle of animal savagery" "Tamed by man's shrewd mastery" "What do your playhouses put on their stages?" "Tame pets, mindful of human mores" "Venting their venom on bland vegetation" "Wallowing and bleating in satisfaction" "Just like those other beasts down in the stalls" "The real beast, savage and beautiful" "Can only be seen in my arena" "You'll see the tiger, true to his nature" "Devour whatever crosses his path" "You'll see the bear, a glutton born" "Drop down dead in nocturnal gorging" "You'll see the comic little monkey" "Wearily toss his tricks to the wind" "His talent not mated with any greatness" "He cheekily flaunts his nakedness ln my tent, upon my soul" "The curtain will rise on a camel, no less!" "You'll see creepy-crawlies from every clime" "Reptiles, salamanders that in chasms dwell" "You'll see crocodiles too, and much more as well" "Hey, Augustus, bring on the serpent!" "She was created to wreak evil and destruction" "To entice, to poison and practice seduction" "And to murder without leaving a trace" "Come, sweet beast, no affected graces!" "You have no right through hissing and mewing" "To distort the image of primeval Woman" "Though now there's nothing special about her" "Just wait and see what will soon occur!" "Quick now, Augustus, lift her to her place" "Sweet innocent!" "My greatest treasure" "And now the climax of my show" "To place my skull between these jaws" "Can you tell me what species this beast will be?" "Ladies and gentlemen" "Roll up to see!" " May I come in?" " My son" " Herr Alwa!" " Come in, come in" "Can it be true?" "Frau Goll?" "If only I could engage you as my leading lady!" "I'd hardly dance well enough for your piece" "What brings you here, then?" "I wanted you to see my dress rehearsal" "Reserve us a box for Saturday, Herr Alwa" "But of course, dear lady" "But where's your husband?" "I've never seen you without him" "He never normally lets you out of his sight" "He should have been here long ago" "Then give him my regards" "And though I don't know her, give mine to your fiancée" "You need to alter this a little, the hair's not right" "You're not concentrating enough" "I'm afraid I must go - duty calls" "Come along" "We'll take my car, it's at the door" "Madame..." "Frau Goll..." " You?" "Who'd have guessed?" " l suppose I look ridiculous?" " My husband will be here any moment" " All I can do is paint lt's him." "Can't you hear anything?" " Someone's coming - l told you so lt's just the caretaker sweeping the stairs" "Thank God" " l can't..." " On with your work!" " Please stop doing that" " What a villain you are" "Why doesn't he come?" "I'd be happier too, if he were finally here" "Could you lift you trouser leg a little?" " Like this?" " May I?" " What are you trying to do?" " l'll show you" "You're just nervous" "Leave me alone!" "You'll never catch me" " l'm only joking." "Stay where you are - l can see your game" " Force will get you nowhere with me - l'd also rather not use force" " First you must catch me." "Keep away" " You don't think you can escape me" " Good night" " You minx!" "I can see all the cities of the earth I can see more beauty than that I can reach to the sky and pin the stars in my hair I'm bursting open the gates of hell" "God save Poland!" " You won't catch me" " God Almighty!" " Mind the trap!" "Don't fall in!" " l'll show you no mercy" " My head's reeling" " Now I've nothing to lose" " My God...my God...my God" " No mercy, No mercy!" " How do you feel?" " My husband will be here soon I love you" "Once I loved a student with 1 75 duelling scars I love you, Nelly" "My name's not Nelly, it's Lulu I shall call you Eve." "Kiss me, Eve" " You smell of tobacco" " Why aren't you more intimate?" " l should feel uneasy" " You're pretending" "Pretending?" "I've never had to pretend" " l don't understand anything any more" " Don't kill me!" " You've never loved" " You've never loved" " Open up!" " For God's sake, hide me!" " Open up!" " He'll kill me" "Get up!" "You dogs!" "You..." "Doctor?" "Doctor Goll?" "Please tidy up the studio first" " Help me to lift him" " No, no" " He can't hear you" " Help me!" "He's too heavy" "We must send for the doctor" "He'll suddenly leap up" "Kissy!" "He's only pretending" "He's looking at my feet, watching every step" "His eyes follow me everywhere" "He's done for lt's all over" "He's abandoned me" "What can I do now?" "is he still unconscious?" "What can I do now?" "The doctor will be here any moment" "Medicine won't help him" "I think he's really done for" "Don't be so vulgar" " Now I'm rich" " What a thing to say" "But is it her fault?" "What am I going to do?" "She's like a savage" "Look at me" " What do you want?" " Just one question" " Can you tell the truth?" " l don't know" " Do you believe in a Creator?" " l don't know" " ls there anything you believe in?" " l don't know" " What do you believe in?" " l don't know" "Leave me alone!" "You're mad" " Have you no soul at all?" " l don't know" " Have you never loved?" " l don't know" "She doesn't know" "But he knows" "What is it you really want to know?" "Go and get dressed" "I'd willingly change places with you, cold corpse I give her back to you, I give you my youth as well" "I can't cope with happiness - it scares me to death" "Wake up!" "I didn't touch her" "Wake up!" "I pray that heaven" "May give me the strength" "And the freedom of spirit" "To enjoy just a little happiness" "For her sake" "For her sake alone" "Will you fasten my dress?" "My hand's shaking" " Eve!" " At your command!" "The post is here." "For you" "From Countess Corticelli" "Your portrait as a dancer sold for 50,000 marks!" " Who's the letter from?" " My dealer in Paris" "That's three paintings sold since we got married I can hardly believe my luck" "There's more to come" "Look" ""Count Heinrich von Zarnikov announces the engagement" ""of his daughter Charlotte Marie Adelaide to..." ""Dr Ludwig Schön"" "At last." "He's been after her for an age I don't understand it." "He's so ruthless and influential" "What could block his marriage?" "We must send our congratulations" " We did that long ago" " For his bride's sake" "You write, then" "And now to work" " Eve!" " At your command" "You look enchanting today" "Your hair's as fresh as the morning I'm fresh from the bath" "Each day I seem to see you for the very first time" " You're terrible!" " lt's all your fault" "You're spoiling me" "You're mine to spoil - since you're mine, I've nothing else I'm no longer myself" "Don't get so worked up" "Damn the bell!" "Don't go - we're not at home, we'll just not open the door lt might be my dealer I don't care if it's the Emperor of China" "Just a moment" "You... lt's a beggar - l've no change on me" "And it's high time I got back to work" "I had imagined him quite differently" "More charismatic" "How could you come begging from him?" "But that's just why I've come" "How much do you need?" "200, if you can spare it 300, if you like" "God, I'm tired I've been very curious to see" "What your place is like" "How do you like it?" "Just what I had in mind for you I'm overwhelmed" "Like my place 50 years ago, only more modern" "You've come a long way" " Such carpets!" " l like to go barefoot" "That's you all over!" "What's your news?" "The roads get longer and longer" "And my legs get shorter and shorter" "And your concertina?" "Wheezes, like me with my asthma" "It's been a long time" "How have you been?" "Still learning French?" " l lie down and sleep" " Very genteel." "What else?" "I stretch until my joints crack" "And when they've finished cracking?" " What's that to you?" " What's that to me?" "I'd sooner live till Judgment Day" "And renounce all the joys of heaven" "Than have my Lulu in want on earth" "My little Lulu" "Why do you call me Lulu?" "Why not?" "Have I ever called you anything else?" "No one's called me Lulu for years" "And how long is it since I last danced?" " These days I'm just..." " What are you?" "An animal" "I'll let myself out" " What was your father doing here?" " What's wrong with you?" "If I were your husband, I wouldn't allow that man in the house" "No need to be so formal" " He isn't here - l'm grateful for the honour I don't understand I know you don't" "That's what I want to discuss with you" "Why didn't you tell me yesterday?" "Never mind yesterday - l've been saying it for two years now" "Really!" "I must ask you not to see me any more" "If your husband weren't so naive" "He'd have found you out long ago" "He is not naive but he sees nothing" "He sees neither me or himself" " He's blind, blind, blind" " Just wait till it dawns on him" "He doesn't know me at all What am I to him?" "He calls me his darling and his little birdie I'm nothing, nothing but his woman" " Enough of this" " Please yourself I married you off" "Twice I married you off" "You live in luxury" "Thanks to me your husband has a secure position" "You may be dissatisfied and he oblivious" "That's fine by me but leave me out of it" "What are you afraid of?" "You've got all you want" "Got all I want?" "I have become engaged - at long last" "My bride must have a respectable home" "She's certainly blossomed most beautifully" "She no longer stares through people so earnestly" "But we can still meet wherever you like" "We won't be meeting anywhere..." "Not even you believe what you're saying!" "..except in the presence of your husband" "My husband!" "If I belong to any man in this world" "Then I belong to you" "Without you I should be..." "I dread to think where l'd be" "You took me by the hand, you fed and clothed me" "When I'd tried to steal your watch" "Do you think I can forget that?" "Who in the world apart from you ever cared a thing about me?" "Leave me out of it lf you feel obliged to me" "Don't stand in my way for a third time" "The fact that you're married is no use to me lf you're seen at every hour of the day going in and out of my house I had hoped that giving you a vigorous young husband" "One that any young woman would desire" "Would have made you happy once and for all" "Really!" "I must settle down" "My extensive business affairs demand it I must get married" "Why should I oppose your marriage?" "Then for God's sake let me go!" "Your marriage is no reason" "To treat me with contempt" "Contempt?" "What's contemptible is your scheming" "Do you really think I'm jealous of that child?" "That "child" is scarcely a year younger than you" " What's wrong?" " Tell him then" " What's going on?" " lt doesn't concern you" " l'm no longer wanted - lt had to come out I must free myself at last ls this a joke?" " Please sit down" " Well?" "Please sit down" "Well?" "You married half a million marks ls that a crime?" "You've made a name for yourself" "You can paint as you please, you need deny yourself nothing" "What have you got against me?" "Your wife deserves a husband she can respect" " And she doesn't?" " No" "Why not?" "Tell me!" " You should keep an eye on her" " What?" "We are not children." "This isn't a game" " lt's life" " What is she up to?" "You married half a million marks" "What does she get up to?" " Remember what you owe her" " What does she get up to?" "And don't blame others for your own failings" " Who is it?" " We don't want to duel, do we?" "Oh, God!" "Leave God out of it." "What's done is done I'm not here to make a scandal" "But to save you from one" " You've misunderstood her" " Perhaps" "But I can't let you be so blind" "She's earned respectability" "She's come a long way since I met her" "And when was that?" " When she was eleven" " She never told me" "She was selling flowers outside the Alhambra Café" " She never told me that" " She was right not to" " She said an aunt had raised her" " That was a woman I sent her to" " And how did Dr Goll meet her?" " Through me" "After my wife's death I met my current fiancée" "She came between us" "She was determined to marry me herself" "And when the Doctor died?" "You married half a million!" "And yet she told me she'd never been in love" "Don't expect middle-class values from someone like Mignon" " You're talking about Eve?" " l called her Mignon" " l thought her name was Nelly" " That's what Dr Goll called her" " l don't know her real name" " Perhaps she does" "Given her father, she's nothing short of a miracle" " Didn't he die in a madhouse?" " He was here just now" " Who was?" " Her father" " Here, in my house?" " He sneaked out when I came in" "The glasses are still there" " Lies, all lies!" " She must learn to obey you" "She said he died in a lunatic asylum" "She swore on her mother's grave she'd never been in love before" "She never knew her mother, let alone her grave" " Oh God, the pain I'm feeling!" " Guard her well, she's yours" " lf only I could weep" " The moment's decisive" " lf only I could cry aloud" " You'll lose her, if you delay" " You're quite right" " Where are you going?" " l'll confront her" " That's right" "That took some doing" "Didn't he take her into the studio?" " Open up!" " What is it?" "is there a cleaver in the kitchen?" " He'll open it in a minute - l don't want to break it down" "I can't be seen here lt might be his dealer" "You still don't have to answer" " Calm down" " Revolution has broken out in Paris" " You're as pale as death" " Where's the cleaver?" " lf l can find one" " What is he up to?" " A revolution in Paris?" " And we don't know what to print" " Should I force the door?" " l can do that" "Give it to me" "You must swing harder lt's giving" " After you" " Horrible!" "What is it?" " Come with me, I can't be alone" " Horrific" " Come!" " Where to?" "I can't be left alone" "Has she gone?" "She's gone to her room to change" "There goes my engagement" "And whose fault is that?" "Shout it from the rooftops!" "If only you had married her when Mother died" "My engagement, bleeding to death" "Where are you going?" "I can't stay here now" "What about the police?" "You talk to them" " The ungrateful fool!" " Restrain yourself, please" " There's only us here" " How very true" "He must have seen the light" "His future was too much for him" "He always had a death wish" "Suicide..." "He had what men can only dream of" "He paid a terrible price" "Cut his throat with a razor..." "Just ten minutes ago he was here" "Paranoia..." "Now I might as well retire from the world" "Write a leader, put out a special edition" "A special edition..." ""Revolution in Paris"" "The editors have no idea how to cover it" "That will help me out of this mess." "What's keeping the police?" " They're here" " Yes, that must be them" "Wait!" "A spot of blood" "Wait!" "I'll wipe it off" " Your husband's blood!" " No trace of it now" "You're a monster!" "You'll marry me yet" "Just you wait and see, children" "I've never seen an audience driven to such frenzy" "Not too much champagne!" "is he coming?" " My father?" "I don't know" " Does he not want to see me?" " He has so little time" " His fiancée takes it all" " Has the Prince come?" " Not yet" " Will he come?" " He'll be here soon" "He wants to marry me" " Really?" " He's taking me to Africa" "To Africa..." "Remember the first time I came into your room?" "You wore a dark blue dress" "I thought of you as someone so very far above me" "I had more regard for you" "Than for my ailing mother" "And when she died I went to my father" "And told him to marry you at once" "Or else face me in a duel" "Yes, he told me that himself" " More, please" " You're drinking too much" "Your father ought to believe in my success now" "He put me on the stage" "So that someone might come along rich enough to marry me" "God forbid that you should be taken from us!" "Didn't you write this music?" "There are a few men out there who'd like to take me away I can tell without looking" "How can you tell?" "I get a kind of shiver up and down my spine" "You're incredible" "My boa!" "Here it is" "Someone could write an interesting opera about her" "First scene - "The Old Doctor"" "A poor start" "It sounds like feeding time at the zoo" "Second scene - "The Painter"" "That's even worse" "Third scene..." "Can it really go on like this?" "It was at Dr Schön's house" "That I met this charming artiste" "My father brought her into the public eye" "Through some reviews in the paper" "Would you believe it" "But at first I mistook her for one of the literary crowd I'm less interested in her dancing" "Than in her physical and spiritual elegance I've seen her dance for ten nights and now I feel I know her very soul" "She is the embodiment of joy" "She'd make a man supremely happy" "And she will - as my wife" " What's going on?" " What's wrong with you?" " Something's happened" " Why panic so?" "All hell must have broken loose" "Go, go." "Quickly!" " She fainted during her dance" " She fainted?" " How did it happen?" " For heaven's sake, shut the door!" " Didn't you see him?" " See who?" " Your father, with his fiancée" " With his..." "What's wrong with her?" "How can you do this to me?" " You brought this on yourself" " You will dance" " No" " And in front of my fiancée" "She can't dance in front of your fiancée" " Let her rest a little..." " l won't dance in front of his fiancée" "..then she'll dance for your fiancée" "Yes...then" "Start the next number." "No one will notice if she's late." " l'm coming" " We'll call you" "How dare you play this scene?" "You're right to put me in my place" "Dancing for your fiancée" "Given your background, you're lucky" "That decent people come to see the likes of you I know what I'd be today lf it hadn't been for you" "Are you so very different?" "No, thank God" "And I couldn't be happier" "So you'll dance now?" "In front of anyone" "Get on stage, then" "Let me rest a moment" "They'll ring for me" "What did the Prince want?" " To take me to Africa" " To Africa?" "You made me a dancer" "Just so that some man would sweep me away" "But not to Africa!" "Then why were you angry when you saw me faint?" "I didn't believe you'd really fainted" "You couldn't bear it out there I know you're indestructible" "So you do realize that?" " Don't look at me so insolently" " No one's keeping you here" " l shall go as soon as the bell rings - lf you can summon the energy" "What happened to your energy?" "You've been engaged for three years" "Why haven't you married?" "You really think it's because of you?" "Then go to your innocent bride, leave me alone" "Go, before you weaken ln a week I'll be married." "Stay out of my sight until then I'll keep my door locked" "You must be feeling virtuous" "How else could you marry that child?" " Do you want me to hit you?" " Go on, marry her" "She'll soon be dancing before me in her childish misery instead of my dancing for her" " May God forgive me" " Hit me!" "I must get out!" "Where shall I go?" "To my fiancée?" "Home?" "If only I could run away from life!" "You know you're too weak to tear yourself away from me" "How you hurt me!" "I relish this moment more than I can say" " The strong man weeps" " The poor innocent child!" " Go to her - l can't" "Now get out!" "Send the Prince in" "For God's sake, what am I to do?" " Here's writing paper - l can't write" " Write!" " l can't" ""Dear Fräulein von Zarnikov..."" " But I call her Brigitte - "Dear Fräulein von Zarnikov..."" "My death sentence!" ""l must break off our engagement" ""For I cannot, in all conscience..."" "Write it! "..in all conscience..." ""Bind you to my unhappy fate"" "How right you are" ""l swear I am unworthy of your love" ""These lines provide you with the proof" ""For three years I have tried to free myself" ""But I lack the strength" ""l write this at the side of the woman" ""Who has me in her power" ""Forget me" ""Dr Ludwig Schön"" " Oh, God!" " "Oh, God" won't help you" " Postscript..." " Postscript?" ""Do not attempt to save me"" "Now comes the execution" "I'm so happy that you're coming to our Lady Artists' Ball I don't suppose someone like me could possibly be smuggled in?" "It would be high treason if one of us were to encourage such intrigue" "The flowers are exquisite" "Countess Geschwitz brought them for me lt was a pleasure" "You will come dressed as a man, won't you?" "Do you think that would suit me?" " Here you're enchanting" " My husband doesn't like it" " ls it by a local painter?" " You wouldn't have known him" " You mean he's dead?" " He'd had enough" "You're in a bad mood" "I must go, dear lady I still have all the preparations for the ball to see to" "So these are my twilight years!" "A plague infects my house" "30 years of work" "For this to be my family circle, my closest friends" "God knows who's spying on me" "One's life isn't safe" "This is my family!" "What a nerve he's got" "I'm already giving way to madness" "The filth!" "Can't you take the afternoon off?" "What did the Countess want?" "I don't know..." "She wants to paint me I'd love to go driving with you" "You know I must go to the Stock Exchange today" "You're in a foul mood. lt's been so long since I had you to myself" "I hoped you'd brighten my declining years" "Yet you didn't really marry me" "Who did I marry then?" "It was I who married you" "Does that make a difference?" "A great deal, I fear." "But not, thank God, in one respect" "What's that?" "Your love for me" "Home at last, the Lord be praised!" "These polished floors!" "Pitfalls and man-traps!" "He's too small for the big wide world, and can walk this far by himself lf my life was at stake, you'd see how strong I am" "This fellow, with all his love-sickness, weighs no more than 40 kilos I'll get expelled" "You haven't yet been to a proper school" "Many have won their spurs here" "So don't be bashful" " lf only I knew what to say to her!" " She'll tell you that herself" " Do the gentlemen smoke?" " We've got Havanas" " l've all you need here in the house" " Yesterday I wrote a poem" " What did he write for her?" " A poem" "He offered me two quid to fix him up with her" " Who really lives here?" " We do" "On Stock Exchange days" " Shall I read it to her first?" " What's he on about?" "His poem - he wants to tantalize her first" "His eyes!" "She hasn't slept for a week thinking about his eyes" "So - that's the end of us" " Your health, Old Father Time" " Your health, young jumping-jack" "But children, we're expecting company" "Fine company you keep!" " What are those flowers?" " Orchids." "Smell them!" " You're expecting the Prince?" " God forbid!" " Yet another admirer, then?" " The Prince is abroad" "Who is this prince?" "He wanted to marry her once I once wanted to marry her too" "What, you too?" "Who hasn't wanted to marry her?" " So she's not your child?" " lt never crossed her mind" " Then who's her father?" " She never had one" " What's that I never had?" " A father" "Yes, I'm a miracle" " You've locked upstairs?" " Here's the key" " You should have left it in the lock" " Why on earth?" "So it couldn't be opened from outside lsn't he at the Stock Exchange?" "Yes, but he's paranoid I'll grab his feet and - splat!" " he'll be stuck to the ceiling" "One look from him and you'd run off into a mouse hole" "Who'd run off?" "Look at these biceps!" " Show me" " Like granite!" "Hard as iron!" "An anvil!" "If only your ears weren't so long" " Doctor Schön" " The dog!" "Give me the key" "Show him in" "Let's hope he doesn't stay, then we'll be alone" "I think the matinée will have electric light. I have..." " What's that?" " An old friend of your father's" " l've never seen him before" " From his army days" " He's badly off - ls my father here, then?" "They had a drink together." "He had to go to the Stock Exchange" "How do you like me?" " l really shouldn't say - l'm only asking about my dress" "Your dressmaker knows you better than I dare to" "Seeing myself in the mirror, I wished I were a man " "My own husband" "So you envy your husband the pleasure you give him" " What's wrong with you?" " Don't" "Sir?" " He looks so tearful today" " Don't" "One is only human too" "What I admire most in you is your strength of character" "You are always so confident" "Even when you risked falling out with your father" "You always stood up for me like a brother I seem fated to succeed despite my own frivolity" "You've been the only man to protect me" "Without making me feel degraded" "Do you think that's easy?" "My own son!" "Divinely gifted people like you make criminals of the rest of us l'm flesh and blood too lf we hadn't grown up as brother and sister..." "That's why I can trust you like no other man I've nothing to fear from you" "Believe me, there are certain moments" "When one's innermost self seems to collapse before one's eyes" "But let's not talk of that" " Are you ill?" " Leave him alone" "He's trembling, as though he's feverish" "Madame..." "Sir..." "Him, too!" "What did you mean just now" "About one's innermost self collapsing before one's eyes?" "I didn't mean to talk about it I've hurt you" "I won't mention it again" "You promise me, not ever?" "Here's my hand on it" "What are you doing?" "Still another!" "A soul in the hereafter, rubbing the sleep from its eyes" " This hand..." " What do you see in it?" " An arm..." " What do you see in it?" " A body..." " What do you see in it?" " Mignon!" " Don't look at me like that!" "Destroy me!" "Put an end to me!" "Do you love me, then?" " Do you love me, Mignon?" " l don't know" "Mignon, I love you" "I poisoned your mother" "His father!" "Revolution has broken out in Paris" "In Paris..." "Let me go to Paris" "No one knows what to print" " Not that way!" "You'll run right into him" " Let me through" "He'll blow my brains out" "Hell and damnation!" " Where's he gone?" " Outside" " Over the balcony?" " He's an acrobat" "You animal, you drag me through the gutter to die a martyr's death" "My angel of death!" "My inexorable undoing!" "Joy of my old age!" "You hangman's noose!" "How do you like my new dress?" "Away with you or by tomorrow I'll be mad" "And my own son will be swimming in his own blood I must save myself." "Do you understand?" "You must use it against yourself" " lt won't fire" " Shall I guide your hand?" " ls it loaded?" " This isn't a joke" " What was that?" " Nothing, just your paranoia" "Have you any more men hidden away?" "Another visitor, perhaps?" "Did you come down the chimney?" "Save me from him!" " Or are you an acrobat, too?" " You're hurting me" "You really must stay for dinner" "There are enough bullets left for you - let's get it over with I can't help my own servant put horns on my head" " Let's get it over with" " You could divorce me" "Out of the question" "That another might amuse himself" "Where I lurched from chasm to chasm" "Goaded by suicide and led on by you" "Get a divorce?" "is divorce possible, when two people have become entwined" "And lost half of their own self?" "Can't you see your bed, and the sacrificial victim on it?" "Hand it over!" "I shall save you the trouble" "If people have killed themselves for me" "That does not lessen my worth" "You know quite well why you made me your wife" "Just as I knew why I took you as my husband" "You deceived your dearest friends by wedding me" "So you could hardly deceive yourself as well" "If you sacrificed your sunset years to me" "You've had all my youth in return" "I've never wished to appear other" "Than what I've been taken for" "And I have never been taken for anything other" "Than what I am" "Down, you murderess!" "On your knees" "Down, and don't you dare rise again!" "Pray to God for strength!" "Help!" " And there's still another!" " Merciful Heaven!" " Out of my sight!" " For God's sake!" " Alwa!" " The only one I ever loved!" "Murderess!" " Water!" " Water!" "He's dying of thirst" " My father!" " l shot him" " She's innocent" " You..." " lt's all gone wrong" " She's innocent" "Don't hold me like that!" "My throat's parched" "You never change" "Don't let her escape - you'll be next" " Help me to get him into bed" " No, no!" " into the bedroom" " No!" "Oh God, oh God!" "The devil!" "For him it's finally over" " Stop!" "Stay where you are!" " She's innocent l thought it was you" " You can't hand me over to trial" " Why not?" "Alwa, you can demand whatever you like" "But don't turn me over to the police!" "What a waste that would be." "I'm still young I'll be true to you for ever I'll be yours, and yours alone" "Look at me, Alwa!" "Look at me, man!" "The police are here!" "He's keeping us waiting like a conductor" "Please don't speak I simply don't understand" "That this ordeal is supposed to have changed her for the better" "She's looking lovelier than I've ever known her" "If cholera's done to her what it's done to you..." "Things that would kill us give her new life and health" "It's all very well saying that but I'm not going with her tonight" "You'd let your bride travel alone?" "Firstly, the old man will be there to protect her in case of need" "Secondly, I've got to wait till my new costumes are ready I'm having leotards made in the most delicate shade of pink" "If they aren't a hit abroad" "Then call me a stinking sewer!" "The flattering effect will only be marred by my appalling paunch" "The result of participating in this great conspiracy" "Three months in a hospital bed, when nothing's wrong with you" "Would turn the most clapped-out tramp into a fat pig" "And now he refuses to travel with her I'm still not convinced your escape plan will work" "But words can hardly express how I admire your selflessness" "Your heroic indifference to every danger, even death I have no idea how rich you are" "But this venture must have taxed your resources" "May I offer you a loan of 20,000 marks" "Which I can easily raise in ready cash?" "He's here at last" "Confound this darkness!" "I'm coming" "Her Ladyship hasn't seen sunlight for three whole days" "I've been scurrying about for passports since dawn" "Help me!" "I can recommend a hotel in Paris" "The owners are Berliners" "Help me!" "And you'll be safer there from the police than anywhere else" "He wants you to travel alone with her" "Scared she'll infect you?" "It won't harm her" "To take a little air before our honeymoon" " This wallet contains 10,000 marks" " Thank you, no" " Please accept it" " Do get a move on!" "Patience, dear lady. lt's a mere stone's throw to the hospital" " ln five minutes we'll bring her back" " Then let's get a move on" "This is the quickest way" "You offered money to that crazy hag!" "What's that got to do with you?" "My finances are low too" "First, I had to spend months in hospital to spy out the land" "Having first collected the necessary symptoms for such a long stay" "Second, I'm having to act as your butler, dear Doctor" "To keep outsiders away" "And finally, it is my intention to train her" "To be "the loveliest acrobat of our time"" "To which end I shall gladly risk my life" "Whoever did more for his bride-to-be?" "The Countess paid you back every penny" "As far as I know, she also pays you a monthly salary of 500 marks I find it difficult to believe in your love for that wretched murderess lf it were not for the Countess and her heroic undertaking" "You'd be lying drunk and penniless in some gutter" "And where would you be without the two million you got" "From selling your father's scandal-sheet?" "What work do you do?" "You've written a ghastly melodrama starring my fiancée's legs" "No decent opera house will do it" "You pompous idiot!" "You snot-rag!" " Who's that?" " There's my bride!" "I haven't seen her for a year" " They can't be back already" " Damn it, open the door" "Hide!" "With whom do I...?" "You?" "What are you doing here?" "Where have you come from?" "From the reformatory." "I escaped early this morning" " And what do you want from me?" " Please help me I've got a plan to rescue her" "Rescue who?" "What sort of plan?" "What do you want from me?" "Does she really mean so little to you?" "Must I spell it out?" "The evidence you gave before the court" "Helped her more than anything the defence counsel said" "You were her best witness" "But no one believed me - l wasn't on oath" "Will his Lordship take coffee in the music room or on the veranda?" "How on earth did he get here?" "Through the same door I've taken him into my service." "He's reliable I'm so stupid" "You're the last person we wanted to see lf l ever see you again I'll beat your brains out" "Do be quiet I'm so stupid" "Don't you know she died weeks ago?" "That isn't true" "What do you know about it?" "Look here, read." "Here" ""Murderess of Dr Schön ill with cholera"" "But it doesn't say she's dead" "What else could she be?" "She's been lying in the graveyard for three weeks" "Just round the corner on the left by the rubbish dump" "Then it's true she's dead?" "Yes, thank God" "My life is hardly worth more than hers" "And I would have sacrificed it for her happiness" "But what the hell!" "Now I'll go to hell anyway" " Now get out!" " Please leave us now I'm so stupid" "I'm amazed you didn't offer that oaf a handout too I won't stand for your filthy insinuations" "You're not worth half that boy's little finger" "Here comes my bride" "Soon to be known as "the loveliest acrobat of our age"!" "Come, little Lulu, we must cross the border tonight" "Hell and damnation!" "Slowly. I can't go so fast" "How have you got the nerve to show up here with your wolfish face?" " Shut up!" " l'm going to the police I'll denounce you!" "And you want to appear in leotards!" " Don't insult the lady" " You call that an insult?" "Because of this bag of bones I let myself get paunchy I'm unemployable" "But by God, I'll recoup my losses" "Selling what I know about you I'll go straight to the police" " Bon voyage, everybody" " Get a move on, then" " He'd never dare" " That's got rid of him" "Thank God for that I must collect our sleeping-car tickets I'll be back for you in half an hour" "All right" "Good evening" "Sweet dreams!" "Freedom!" "Thank God!" "Won't you have a drink?" "I haven't seen a drawing-room for two years" "Curtains, a sofa, and pictures" "Benedictine?" "How like the old days it seems!" "Where's my portrait?" "Here!" "I turned it face to the wall" "You didn't look at it while I was gone?" "Countess Geschwitz wanted to hang it in her apartment" "But she was afraid of being searched" "Now the poor creature is in prison in my place I still don't understand how it all happened" "The Countess arranged it all most cleverly I admire her resourcefulness" "There was a dreadful outbreak of cholera in Hamburg this summer" "That provided her with an escape plan" "She took a nursing course here, and when she had all the qualifications" "Travelled to Hamburg to nurse cholera victims" "She took the underclothes from a patient who'd just died" "They ought to have been burnt" "On that same morning she visited me in my prison cell" "While the guard was outside, we exchanged underwear" "So that was why you both contracted cholera on the same day!" "Of course" "Geschwitz was taken straight to the isolation ward" "And there was no other place for me to go either" "So we were in the same room." "Geschwitz used all her artistry" "To make us look as much alike as possible" "Two days ago she was discharged" "Today she came back, saying she'd forgotten her watch I put on her clothes, she got into my prison uniform" "And off I went" "Now she's lying there as the murderess of Dr Schön" "You can still stand comparison with your portrait" "My face is thinner, though" "You looked ghastly when you came in I had to, just to be rid of that acrobat" "Give me a kiss" "Your eyes shimmer like the surface of a deep well" "into which a stone has been thrown" "Come!" "But your lips are thinner than they were" "Do I repel you?" "I'll write a rhapsody to your beauty" "Pity about these terrible shoes" "They don't diminish your allure" " Come, my dearest" " Gently" "Don't forget I killed your father I don't love you any the less" "Come!" "A kiss!" "Bend your head back" "If it weren't for those great childlike eyes" "I'd call you the most cunning whore" "Who ever lured a man to his ruin I wish to God I were!" "Cross the border with me tonight" "Then we can be together as much as we want" "As much as we want..." "Beneath your dress your body is like music" "These ankles, a grazioso..." "These alluring curves, cantabile..." "These knees, misterioso..." "And the powerful andante of desire" "Your thighs, two slender rivals" "Nestling peacefully together" "Each aware that neither can match the other's beauty" "Until their moody mistress wakes" "And the rivals move apart like magnetic poles" "I shall sing your praises till your senses reel" "So you'll leave with me tonight?" "Will you?" "You've robbed me of all reason" "Isn't that the sofa where your father bled to death?" "Hush!" "Ladies and gentlemen!" "Let's drink a birthday toast to our lovely hostess" "The Countess Adelaide of..." "And so I raise my glass, and so on, good ladies..." " Best wishes!" " Your health!" "I'm sweating like a pig" "Why haven't we seen your charming little princess before?" " Such a pretty girl, your daughter" " But gentlemen, she's just a child" " No one for baccarat?" " But of course" " l'm depending on it" " Please take your places" " The gentlemen will join us later" " Excuse me a moment I must speak to my friend" "Would you go fifty-fifty with me?" "Can you sell me any shares of Jungfrau Cable Car stock?" "I have 4,000 shares left but I'm holding on to them" "The chance to make a fortune doesn't come so often I've acquired only a single Jungfrau share I'd like more too I'll try to find you some" "But let me tell you now, they won't be cheap" "All my savings are in Jungfrau shares lf they go down, I'll scratch your eyes out" "My dear, I know exactly what I'm doing I can also assure you that you have nothing to fear" "My Jungfrau shares cost a fortune and I haven't regretted it" "They're going up every day" "There's never been anything like it I hope you're right" "Come, my friend, let's try our luck at baccarat" " l'd like a word with you" " As many as you want I'll take my leave now" "Leave us alone!" "Are you deaf?" " Just tell me how much you want" " You don't have it to give" "What makes you think that?" "You already gave me the last of your money lf it's me you want, you needn't make threats I know but I've told you again and again" "That you're not my type" "Which makes you all the better suited for the position I have in mind for you" "Have you gone mad?" "A position - for me?" "You know that also I deal in women I've placed innumerable adventurous, life-loving girls" "From the finest families throughout the world" "In the kind of employment" "That they were destined for" "Such work wouldn't suit me" "At 15, I might have liked it" "But I had the good fortune of spending three months in hospital" "Without setting eyes on a single man" "During that time my eyes were opened, and I learned who I was" "Every night I dreamed of the man I had been created for" "And who had been created for me" "When I got back among men I was no longer a silly goose" "Whenever I now meet a man, I can tell - in pitch darkness, at a hundred yards - lf we're destined for each other" "And when I abuse this insight" "The next day I feel unclean in mind and body" "The public prosecutor will pay 1 ,000 marks to the person" "Who reports Dr Schön's murderess to the police I only have to call the policeman there on the corner" "And I've earned 1 ,000 marks" "But a certain establishment in Cairo would pay 1 ,200 for you - 200 more than I'd get from the public prosecutor" "You really expect me to believe that the Egyptian would pay 1 ,200 marks" "For a woman he doesn't even know?" " l sent him your pictures" " The ones I gave you?" "He appreciates them more than I do" "He intends to hang the one of you posing as Eve over the main entrance" "When you get there I won't be a captive in such a house of joy!" "Shall I call the police, then?" "Why not just ask me for 1 ,200 marks?" "Because you and your composer friend are broke" "We still have 30,000 marks ln shares. I have never dealt in shares" "The public prosecutor pays in German cash" "The Egyptian pays in English gold" "Better make up your mind." "The train leaves at one o'clock lf there's no deal by eleven, I'll call the police" "Or pack you straight into a car" "Drive you to the station and escort you to the ship tomorrow evening I'd go to America with you, to China" "But I can't sell the one thing that's always been my own" "If we haven't left by eleven" "You and all your rabble will be transported straight to Germany" "You can't turn me in!" "Everything's going splendidly" "Me, in a brothel... I always keep my promises" "The Countess has staked everything she owns" ""Hand over 20,000 marks or I'll turn you in"" "Everyone has won!" "Are you trying to avoid me?" "No, but when you appear I go away" "You could at least be polite when you talk to me I am, as much as with any woman I would ask you to show the same courtesy to me" " You've cheated me out of everything" " For example?" "Have you forgotten all your protestations of passion" "While we were together in hospital " "As a result of which I took your place in prison?" "You've cheated me out of everything I had" "You're not like other human beings" "Not enough body for a man" "Too much brain for a woman" "That's why you're insane" "You deceived me and were fully aware of it I do not envy you your skill in torturing helpless victims I feel as free as a god" "When I think what a slave you are to basic instincts" "Just a moment." "Have you read my note?" "Threaten me all you want I no longer have 20,000 to throw around" "You lying whore!" "You still have 40,000 in Jungfrau shares" "Your so-called husband has just been boasting about it" "Then blackmail him instead" "Most grateful for the advice" "Such an idiot would need half a day to understand" "That I need the cash to get married I'm engaged, you see I give you my blessing" "But why are you pursuing the Countess with your proposals?" "Because she's of noble blood I'm a man of the world" "And better versed in the art of genteel conversation than any of you" "But never mind that" "Will you get me the money by tomorrow evening?" "Yes or no?" "I no longer have any money" "Alwa would give you his last cent lf you'd only just do your goddamn duty" "Leave Alwa out of this" "You'll make four people happy lf you overcome your scruples" "And sacrifice yourself to a charitable cause" "And all because of this marriage?" "Or do you belong so completely to that pimp of yours?" "Should I perhaps ask him to show you out?" "Just as you wish, my lady" "Get those 20,000 marks by tomorrow" "Or I'll go to the police and that's the end of you" "Till then, dear lady" "To the gaming-room" " Jungfrau shares" " Gone up" " 20,000" " Message for the Bank Director!" ""Jungfrau Cable Car shares crash"" "That's the way it goes" "It's better to screw them before they screw you" "Show him right in" "I need some money I'm renting a place for my new lady friend" "Does she need the money very urgently?" "She wants to furnish her own apartment" "You'd hardly miss such a small amount" "God help me!" " What is it?" " l'm in terrible trouble" "You're taking things too hard." "Go to bed with a good book" "Have a good cry lt hit you as badly as that 15 years ago" "He's going to turn me in" " Who?" " The acrobat I'll take care of him" "Oh, do, I beg you!" "Then I'll do anything for you" "Get him to my place - it's right over the water" "But he won't come, surely I'll send him there with the Countess." "He'll come this very evening" "Go home and make things cosy for him" "Just send him to me" "Bring me those gold earrings of his" "Does he wear earrings?" "You can get them just before you throw him in the water lf he's drunk, he won't notice" "And then, my child, what then?" "Then I'll give you money for your lady friend I call that mean" "What else do you want?" "What I've got is yours" "How long has it been since we..." "knew each other?" "If that's all you want" " But you have a lady friend?" " She's past it" " Swear to it, then" " Have I ever let you down?" " Swear you'll take care of him - l'll take care of him" "I swear by all that's holy!" "Tonight - if he comes" ""By all that's holy." How soothing that sounds" "How exciting" "Go home." "They're coming in half an hour" " l'm on my way" " Quickly!" "Please" " The address?" " l'll write it down" "Outside, then" " At least be polite" " Whatever for?" "I want to know what you and that lady were talking about" "Mind your own business" "You threatened to turn her in if she didn't go with you" "The shameless hussy!" "As if that could have crossed my mind!" "Even if I did want her, I don't have to threaten her with prison" "Thank you, that's all I wanted to know" "Filthy swine!" "Come here and I'll twist your guts round your neck" "That'll teach him to pick a quarrel with me" " Who?" " That pimp" "How could you tell him I wanted to get you into bed?" "Didn't you suggest I bed Alwa for those Jungfrau shares?" "You owe that poor boy some compassion" "The Countess is beside herself" "She'll throw herself in the river if you keep her waiting" " What's she waiting for?" " She wants to go with you" "Then send her my greetings and tell her to jump in the water" "She'll lend me 20,000 marks, if you go with her" "And if I don't?" "You can turn me in" "Alwa and I have nothing left" "Hell and damnation!" ""You'll make four people happy" ""lf you overcome your scruples" ""And sacrifice yourself to a charitable cause"" "is it certain I'll get the 20,000 marks?" " Ask her yourself" " Tell her I'm ready I'll expect her in the dining room" "But first, I must devour a tin of caviar" "Martha!" "Dearest, you can save my life" "What must I do?" "Go to a cheap hotel with that acrobat" "What for, my darling?" "He says he must have you or he'll inform on me tomorrow" "But even if I do such a dreadful thing, how could it save your life?" "I don't understand" "By flattering his vanity" "Beg him to take pity on you" " And what then?" " l'll wait up for you I won't open my eyes until you come" "Then I'll do it" "You must throw yourself at him I still don't understand" "Take this note." "The address is written on it lt's a sleazy hotel and they're expecting you both this evening" "Quickly, then" "Come along, my darling" "Sorry, ladies, my mouth's full I worship you" "Take pity on my longing!" "Let's climb the scaffold" " Good night, dear children!" " l don't understand" "Quick, we must go immediately!" "Switch clothes with me" " As your ladyship commands" " Cut out the "your ladyship"!" "Just give me your clothes and put on mine." "Come on" " Will you accept this share?" " lt's just worthless paper" "You rogue!" "You won't let me recoup my losses!" "Do you understand what's going on here?" "The bank director has relieved him of all his money" " Now he declines to continue" " He's got cold feet" "Of course I'll continue!" "Of course I'm not getting cold feet!" "But he must put up cash." "Does he think I'm in my bank?" "He can present me with his bumph in the morning!" "You call that bumph?" "It's worth 210" "That was yesterday - now it's at zero" "Tomorrow you'll find no cheaper material to wallpaper your landing with" "Everyone's lost" "How very odd!" "Where did all that money go?" " So now we're all on the streets" " Where did all that money go?" "What can I say?" "I've lost my entire fortune" "Am I dreaming?" "Can I believe my ears?" "You say our shares have sunk?" "Sunk deeper than you!" "You can still use them as curlers" "O God in heaven!" "Ten years of work!" "Where shall we dine now that you're bankrupt too?" "Wherever you wish, but be quick!" "It's looking grim here" "Come, Mummy lf you lie down with dogs..." " What's the meaning of that?" " Have you any money left?" "Are you crazy?" "In two minutes the police will be here." "You can stay, if you want to" "For the love of God!" "Out by the servants' entrance!" "I'll close the door" "In the name of the law - you're under arrest" "Don't be stupid - that's not her" "The rain's drumming down" "Fitting weather for her debut" "When we hear her coming, we must hide in my shack" "It's a crying shame. ls there anything sadder than a prostitute?" "I doubt she'll find many clients I wouldn't recommend it idiot!" "They're coming I won't have it - l'll throw the bastard out" "Forward march!" " We must leave the door open" " Nonsense" " l shall..." " Be quiet" " God help him!" " Shut up!" "He'd better watch out" "Here's where l live I'm afraid it's not very comfortable" "What are you trying to tell me?" "We're alone." "No one's listening" "Good God!" "I've found myself a monster" "I hope you'll give me something" "That's really nice of you" " Have they gone?" " Wait!" " l'll kneel at her door" " Mamma's boy!" "Take a look at that" "Homilies for Pious Pilgrims and Those Who Would Be I'd say God's given up on this one already" "We must disappear" "Will you visit me again?" "He gave me such a thrill" "How much did he give you?" "That's all." "I'm going down to the street again" "We'll soon be living like lords!" " He's coming back" " No, it's not him" " lt's someone else" " Someone's coming up" " Who can it be?" " Probably a good friend" "He must have recommended us" "Come in!" "If I'm intruding, I'll go away I just came to tell you I couldn't get more money" "And now her Ladyship would like to sit at our table I'm not here empty-handed." "I've brought you something else" "On my way here, a junk dealer offered me twelve shillings for this I couldn't bear to part with it but you can sell it if you like" " What have you got there?" " Let me see" "My God, it's Lulu's portrait" "Don't let me see it!" "Throw it out of the window" "But why not keep it?" "This picture restores my self-respect lt explains my fate to me lf there's anyone who, when confronted by these full, ripe lips" "These great childlike eyes" "This pink and white rippling, ripening body" "Feels secure in his bourgeois world " "Let him cast the first stone at us!" "We must hang it for our customers" "There's a nail in the wall over there" "How did you come by it?" "When we were in Paris, I cut it from the frame, after you had all left" "A pity it's damaged" " You must nail it at the bottom as well - l know how to do it lt gives the place a touch of class" "Her body was in full flower then" "The childlike expression of her eyes remains exactly the same" "He must have been a very gifted artist" "Didn't you know him?" "But the fresh dew of her skin" "The fragrance of her breath" "The radiant light that shines from her brow" "The beauty of her youthful flesh on her neck and arms" "All that's been carted off with the rubbish" "Where are you going?" "To catch another man I forbid you to go out again" " Lulu, I'm coming with you" " Leave me!" "You forbid your wife to work, yet you can't even support yourself lt was she alone who confined me to this sick bed" "She?" "is she ill?" "She passed it on to me from her Marquis" "But she's immune to the disease herself lf only she'd gone back to the streets without the Countess" "She doesn't know the ropes yet" "She can't earn a living from love - her whole life is love" " They're coming back" " We must hide again I'm staying here" "Noblesse oblige" "The respectable man does what society expects of him" "Come inside, love, come in" "Goddamn!" "Stairway's so dark!" "It's lighter here." "Come lt's cold in here!" "Very cold!" "Some brandy?" "I always drink brandy." "Brandy's good!" " l don't know where the glass is" " Don't matter" "Loads of brandy l think you're a very handsome man" "My father is Emperor of Uahubee I have six wifes " "Two Spanish" "Two English" "And two French I do not love my wifes." "Always they want me take bath" "Don't touch me!" "How much will you give me?" "Gold." "You trust me." "You will have gold" " Always I pay gold piece" " Then show it to me" " Never I pay before!" " But let me see it I don't understand" "Come!" "Come!" "Let me go!" "Here is den of murder!" "Come, friend, I give you sleeping pill" "There's your sleeping pill" "Lovely dreams he is having - dreams of you" "Sweet dreams" "Here is the door" "I can't stay here." "No one could stand it" "Even the streets are better" "Blood..." "Alwa!" "We must move him out of sight or our clients will take offence" "He wants his peace and quiet but he can't sleep here" "Doctor Alwa has gone to rest" " How dark it is in here!" " lt will get much darker" " She sent me ahead" " That's sensible lf anyone asks for me, I'll be down at the pub" "No!" "If I lay here in my own blood, she still wouldn't shed a tear" "Wouldn't it be better to throw myself off the bridge?" "Which is colder, I wonder, the water, or her heart?" "The knife, then?" "That wouldn't achieve anything" "Or hanging?" "Quick, before she comes" "Let me once more, one last time, appeal to your heart" "Have pity on me!" "Who is that?" " My sister." "She's insane - lnsane?" "You seem to have a pretty mouth I get it from my mother I can see that" "How much?" "Wouldn't you like to stay the whole night?" "No, I haven't the time. I must go home" "You can make up an excuse when you get there" "How much do you want?" "I haven't got much I'm not asking for a fortune - a gold piece, perhaps..." "Good night. I must go" " Stay, for God's sake" " Why should I stay till morning?" "It sounds suspicious." "While I'm asleep, you'll rob me" "No, I won't do that." "No one will" "Please don't let that drive you away." "Please!" "How much?" "Give me half of what I said before" "No, that's too much I'd say you're new at this I started today" "Don't you bother us!" "She's not your sister" "She's in love with you, poor beast" "Why are you looking at me like that?" "You attracted me by the way you walked I thought you must have a good body" "How can you know things like that?" "I even saw you had a pretty mouth" "But all I've got is half a crown lt doesn't matter." "Give it to me" "But you must give me half of it back" "So that I've money for the bus tomorrow I don't have any change" "Have a good look." "Search your pockets" " l only have this" " Give me all of it I'll change it in the morning and give you half" "No, I want it all" "So be it!" "But now come with me" "We don't need a lamp - the moon's shining" "As you wish" "I won't hurt you I like you so much" "Don't let me keep begging you" "All right, then" "This is my last night among these people" "I'm going back to Germany I'll go to university" "I must fight for women's rights" "Study law" "That took some doing!" "I'm a lucky dog" "They don't even have a towel" "You won't be around much longer" "Lulu!" "My angel!" "Let me see you once again" "I'm close to you I'll stay with you" "Forever!"