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Phillip: This Miss Lolo, is the Count’s natural daughter,
and, therefore, the Countess' sister-,foster-sister.
Prince: Step-sister, you mean. Go on,diplomat.
Phillip: And of course they both love you. The Countess
and the ballett -dancer. And this marriage between the
ballett danger and Wasner is your doing.
Prince: Go on.
Phillip: Papa- I've got an idea.
Prince: What is it?
Phillip: I don't know, whether I may say it.
Prince: Well, you are not sousshful as a rule.
Phillip: If my mother wasn't dead-
Prince: Hm. -
Phillip: If it was my mother, who through a strange
chain of circumstances, had just left in the same
If it had been my own
carriage, in which I came?
mother, whom I had cut out of the newspaper.—
Prince: You certainly be Minister, at least for
Agriculture- But come,we must say good-tye.
(Count and Countess return from the mortal)
Prince: Well, my dear friend, I'm sorry,but we must go.
Count: But why don’t you stay? It would be so nice- If
you stayed for lunch.
Prince: Impossible. We have an engagement for lunch at
the umestaurant.
Count: That’s too bad. And now we won’t see you all
the summer.
Prince: Why, we are not out of the world.
Count: And you leave to-morrow?
Prince: Yes.
Count: And go where?
Prince: To the seaside-to Ostende.
Count: Oh, to Ostende. I always wanted to go there myself.