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Phillip: Ah..
Prince: You are rather late, Phillip.
Phillip: Yes, I'm sorry, the fact is, I overslept (To
the Countess) Some of my classrates got together last
night. You know, Countess, I was graduatea a fortnight
ago, And so we made a night of it.
Countess: You seem to have taken to Viennese life pretty
quickly, Mr
Prince: Just call him, Phillip, dear Mizzi.
Countess: Don’t you want to sit down, Phillip? (riesking
at the Prince) My father must come any moment. (Countess
and Prince sit down. (Phillip remains standing,
Phillip: Well, if I may say so, I think the Park is
ripping, no end better than ours.
Countess: You know Ravenstein Park?
Phillip: Of course, Countess. I have lived at the house for
three days.
Countess: Really?
Prince: Gardens can’t develop in town as they do out here.
A hundred years ago our garden was certainly more beautiful
then our house was outside of the city.
than now
Troo bad, the people were allowed to build their
Phillip:
houses around our place.
We are better off. We won’t live to see the
Countess:
city stretching out here.
Phillip: But why not, Countess
Countess: A hundred years ago all this was a hunting
ground. It is quite near the deer park. Do you see
the wall over there, Phillip? And our house used to be
a little hunting lodge of the Empress Maria Theresia.
The figure near the pond belongs to that period.
Phillip: And how old is our castle, Papa?
Prince: (Smiling) Our castle, my boy, was built in the
seventeenth century. I showed you the room where Emperor
Leopold slept one night.
Phillip: Emperor Leopold, 1643 to 1705.
That stick to me from the examination.
Countess laughs)
When I shall be as old as...... (Interrupting himself)
Beg your pardon, I only wanted to say,-next year of the
have forgotten all that stuff. Of course I didn’t know
when I studied the date, that he was such a good friend of
ours, this Emperor Leopold.