![]() ![]() Mephistopheles notes that Faust looks sad, “like a student entering the lecture hall.” The gift was supposed to be for someone else, he tells Faust, but “a child’s a child and a game is a game.” Faust puts the small box in Margaret’s closet, and they begin to leave. As they leave, the Devil gives Faust a small gift box. Mephistopheles reenters and tells Faust that he sees the girl returning to her room. He admits to himself that he came “to seize the crassest pleasure” but now he is overcome by “dreams of love!” The bed, he imagines, is where Nature shaped the girl and “wrought the semblance of divinity.” Faust is critical of himself and his own motives. He lifts the curtain over the bed and becomes even more enraptured. He tells his image of the girl that he feels “the whisper of your spirit.” The entire cottage, because she is in it, is “doglike” to him. Faust, collapsing in a chair next to the girl’s bed, begins to wax poetic about his love and lust for the girl. Faust wants Mephistopheles to leave him alone, so the latter exits. Mephistopheles and Faust enter the girl’s bedroom while she is not there. ![]() She is sure he was of noble family and is impressed that he would be so bold with her. In another room, Gretchen braids her hair and thinks of the “gallant figure” that she met on the street that day. The scene opens in a small, tidy bedroom. ![]()
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