Rosalinde bids farewell to Eisenstein, still believing he is going to jail. She sings a sad complaint about being left alone (her maid, Adele, has managed to secure time off to go to the same party Eisenstein will attend). There are three iterations of this, each of them followed by a brief passage in a can-can rhythm; the three singers are whispering an aside "Oh, how this moves me!" [O je, wie rührt mich dies!].
The cadences for the first and second instances are cut off, but the third finishes its emphatic ascent to ^8.