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I learned to ride and.....
Countess: And....?
Philip: To play the clarinet.
Countess (laughs) Why did you desitate to say that?
Philip: Because...Well, because all people laugh when I say that
I am learning to play clarinet. You laughed too, Countess. Isn’t that
Did anyone ever laugh when you told them that you point to
funny.
pass the time?
Countess: So you know that too already?
Philip: O yes, Excellency...Dat told me that. And there's even a
flower piece, a sort of Chinese vase with laburnum and something purple
with it, hanging in my bedroom in the castle.
Countess: The purple must be lilacs.
Philip: Naturally—lilacs. I recognized them immediately. I
just couldn't think of the name, that's all.
Servant (enters) There's a lady out here, who would like to speak
with the Count. I showed her into the drawing room.
Countess: A lady? Pardon me a moment, gentlemen. (Leaves.)
Philip: Well,Lead, if it depends on me, I approve.
Prince: Of what? What do you mean?
Philip: Idapprove of your choice.
Prince: Are you crazy, boy?
Philip: But Bad, you don't you can keep a secret from me. The
bourgeois blood...
Prince: What are you talking about?
Philip: Lock here, Bad; when you told me that you wanted first of
all to present me to your old friend, the Count: and the Count had a daugh¬
ter, which I, by the way, had long known – I was only a little afraid
that she might perhaps be too young.
Prince: (angrily, but laughing in suite of himself) too young...
Philip: That you eherished a certain predilection for this
danghter was easy to see. You were downright embarrased when you spoke
of her. And then you told me all sorts of things about her that you would
not have told me about others. For example why should the paintings of
some indifferent countess or other interest me? Even if you can tell the
difference between her lilacs and laburnum by the difference in color.
So I thought to myself right away that you were only bringing me here to
see what impression she made on me. And as I have said, my only fear was
that she might be too young—as my mother, not as your wife. You, of
course, can still lay claims to the Ioungest and prettiest. But now I
can say to you,Lead, I find her quite satisfactory, just as she if
Prince: You are really the mostaeceful rascal that I ever
I learned to ride and.....
Countess: And....?
Philip: To play the clarinet.
Countess (laughs) Why did you desitate to say that?
Philip: Because...Well, because all people laugh when I say that
I am learning to play clarinet. You laughed too, Countess. Isn’t that
Did anyone ever laugh when you told them that you point to
funny.
pass the time?
Countess: So you know that too already?
Philip: O yes, Excellency...Dat told me that. And there's even a
flower piece, a sort of Chinese vase with laburnum and something purple
with it, hanging in my bedroom in the castle.
Countess: The purple must be lilacs.
Philip: Naturally—lilacs. I recognized them immediately. I
just couldn't think of the name, that's all.
Servant (enters) There's a lady out here, who would like to speak
with the Count. I showed her into the drawing room.
Countess: A lady? Pardon me a moment, gentlemen. (Leaves.)
Philip: Well,Lead, if it depends on me, I approve.
Prince: Of what? What do you mean?
Philip: Idapprove of your choice.
Prince: Are you crazy, boy?
Philip: But Bad, you don't you can keep a secret from me. The
bourgeois blood...
Prince: What are you talking about?
Philip: Lock here, Bad; when you told me that you wanted first of
all to present me to your old friend, the Count: and the Count had a daugh¬
ter, which I, by the way, had long known – I was only a little afraid
that she might perhaps be too young.
Prince: (angrily, but laughing in suite of himself) too young...
Philip: That you eherished a certain predilection for this
danghter was easy to see. You were downright embarrased when you spoke
of her. And then you told me all sorts of things about her that you would
not have told me about others. For example why should the paintings of
some indifferent countess or other interest me? Even if you can tell the
difference between her lilacs and laburnum by the difference in color.
So I thought to myself right away that you were only bringing me here to
see what impression she made on me. And as I have said, my only fear was
that she might be too young—as my mother, not as your wife. You, of
course, can still lay claims to the Ioungest and prettiest. But now I
can say to you,Lead, I find her quite satisfactory, just as she if
Prince: You are really the mostaeceful rascal that I ever