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Phillip: To blow the clarinet.
Countess: (Laughs) Why do you »hesitate to tell it?
Phillip: Why- Well, because everybody laughs when I tell
them. What’s funny about it? Nobody ever boughed at you,
because you point for a pastime.
Countess: You know that too?
Phillip: Oh, yes, His Highness...... Papa told me. And then
a flower study, a Chinese vase with anemones and something
purple inside hangs in my bedroom.
Countess: Probably lilacs.- The something purple.
Phillip: Of course, lilacs. Iarrignized it at once. Only
I couldn't think of the word just now.
Servant:(Comes) A lady is here who wants to speak to His
Lordship. I showed her into the drawing room.
Countess: A lady? You’ll excuse me a minute. (Goes)
Phillip: Well, Papa, if I have to decide, I'm satisfied.
Prince: With what? What do you mean?
Phillip: Satisfied with your choice.
Prince: Are you crazy, boy?
Papa, do you really think you can Conide a thing
Phillip:
The Bourgeois blood.
from me?
Prince: What are you talking about?
Phillip: Lock here, Papa, when you told me you wanted to
introduce me first thing to your old friend, the Count;
and that the Count had a daughter— But I knew that before,
anyway— I was only a little afraid that she might be too
young.
Prince: (Angry) Has to laugh in suite of himself) too
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Phillip: Why, of course, everybody could see that you had
a certain sympathy for this daughter. You were almost em-
b la rassed talking to her. And you said lots of things about
her, that you wouldn’t have told of anyone else. What should
the paintings of any old Countess interest me? Even if you
can’t distinguish the anemones and the lilacs except by the
So I thought at once, that you only wanted to bring
ettor.
me out here to see what an impression she'd make on me. And
as I said, I was only afraid that she might be too young-
to be my mother, not to be your wife. You might get married
to the youngest and prettiest girl. But now I can tell you,
Papa,-as-the is, she is all right.