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Prince: (Smiling), But then you are a free man, perfectly
free. The world is open to you.
That s the trouble.
Count: But there's no fun in it.
I haven’t even been to the Club. Do you know what I
did the last evening?- There I sat under the tree
and played dominoes with Mizzi.
Prince: There you see, where’s your lonfliness?
When you've got a daughter and such a olever hirl,
too- you always got along so well with her. By
the way, what does she say to your always being
home evenings now?
I uded to be home a few times
Count: nothing.
even before. She doesn't say anything. I think
she doesn't notice the change. Do you think she
knew about Lilo?
COUHT: Of course-
Prince?(laughs) Well, you know
I know.- Of course she must have known. Jut then, I
was really a young man when her mother died,-
she couldn’t have blamed me.
Prince: Oh, ko, (casually) but, sometimes perhaps
she might have felt a little lonely being so much
alone.
Count: Did she complain about me? Oh, you can
tell me.
Prince: I am not in Mizza's confidence. She never
complained to me, of course. Maybe she hasn't felt
it. She's been used to this quiet and retired life
for a long time.
Count: Yes, it’s her own laste. And then, up to
some years ago, she went a good deal in society,
between you and me,Egon, three years ago, even two
years ago, I firmly believed she had made up her
mind to.
Prince: Maße up her mind? Oh, I see.
Count: If you know how many people were interested
in her, even in the last years,
I can understand it,
Prince:
But she doesn't want to the absolutd
Count :
doesn’t want to. I only mean with all this, she couldn't
have felt so very longly, or with all her opportunities
she might-
Prince: Why, of course, it's her own free choice, And then
Mizzi has that other diversion, her painting. Just like
my late Aunt, Fannie Hohenstein, who wrote books to an
advanood age, and absolutely didn't want to many.