PRINCE. Count Appiani! To whom? I have not heard that he is engaged. MARINELLI. The affair has been kept a profound secret. And indeed, there was not much to create a sensation. You will smile, Prince; but it ever happens so with sentimental youths! Love always plays the worst of tricks. A girl without fortune or rank has managed to catch him in her snares, without any trouble, but with a little display of virtue, sensibility, wit, and so forth. PRINCE. The man who can wholly resign himself to the impressions which innocence and beauty make upon him is, in my opinion, rather to be envied than derided. And what is the name of the happy fair one? For though I well know, Marinelli, that you and Appiani dislike each other, he is nevertheless a very worthy young man, a handsome man, a rich man, and an honourable man. I should like to be able to attach him to myself. MARINELLI. If it be not too late; for, as far as I can learn, it is not his intention to seek his fortune at court. He will retire with his spouse to his native valleys of Piedmont, and indulge himself in hunting chamois or training marmots upon the Alps. What can he do better? Here his prospects are blighted by the connection he has formed. The first circles are closed against him. PRINCE. The first circles! What are they worth, mere resorts of ceremony, restraint, ennui, and poverty? But how call you the fair being who is the cause of all these wondrous sacrifices? MARINELLI. A certain--Emilia Galotti? PRINCE. What! Marinelli! a certain---- MARINELLI. Emilia Calotti. PRINCE. Emilia Galotti? Never!---- MARINELLI. Assuredly, your Highness. PRINCE. But no, I say. It is not, and it cannot be! You mistake the name. The family of Galotti is numerous. It may be a Galotti, but not Emilia Galotti! MARINELLI. Emilia--Emilia Galotti. PRINCE. There must be another who bears the same names. You said, however, a certain Emilia Galotti,--a certain one. Of the real Emilia, none but a fool could so speak. MARINELLI. Your Highness is excited. Do you know this Emilia? PRINCE. It is my place to question, not yours, Marinelli. Is she the daughter of Colonel Galotti, who resides at Sabionetta? MARINELLI. The same. PRINCE. Who lives here in Guastalla with her mother. MARINELLI. The same. PRINCE. Near the church of All-Saints. MARINELLI. The same.