Pandora's Box

_The hall of EARTH-SPIRIT_, Act IV, _feebly lighted by an oil lamp on the centre table. Even this is dimmed by a heavy shade. Lulu's picture is gone from the easel, which still stands by the foot of the stairs. The fire-screen and the chair by the ottoman are gone too. Down left is a small tea-table, with a coffee-pot and a cup of black coffee on it, and an arm-chair next it._ _In this chair, deep in cushions, with a plaid shawl over her knees, sits Countess Geschwitz in a tight black dress. Rodrigo, clad as a servant, sits on the ottoman. At the rear, Alva Schoen is walking up and down before the entrance door._ RODRIGO. He lets people wait for him as if he were a concert conductor! GESCHWITZ. I beg of you, don't speak!