There must be some kind of mistake here, Your Highness. I can not recall.... PHILIP Of course, you can't, for I don't suppose you could feel that I was cutting out your picture from a newspaper at Krems? LOLO No, thank heaven! PHILIP It was one of our amusements at school, you know. There was one who cut out all the crimes and disasters he could get hold of. LOLO What a dreadful fellow that must have been! PHILIP And there was one who went in for historical personalities, like North Pole explorers and composers and that kind of people. And I used to collect theatrical ladies. Ever so much more pleasant to look at, you know. I have got two hundred and thirteen--which I'll show you sometime, papa. Quite interesting, you know. With a musical comedy star from Australia among the rest. LOLO I didn't know Your Highness had a son--and such a big one at that. PHILIP Yes, I have been hiding my light under a bushel so far. PRINCE And now you are trying to make up for it, I should say. LOLO Oh, please let him, Your Highness. I prefer young people like him to be a little _vif_. PHILIP So you are going to retire to private life, Miss Pallestri? That's too bad. Just when I might have the pleasure at last of seeing you on those boards that signify the world.... LOLO That's awfully kind of Your Highness, but unfortunately one hasn't time to wait for the youth that's still growing. And the more mature ones are beginning to find my vintage a little out of date, I fear. PRINCE They say that you are about to be married. LOLO Yes, I am about to enter the holy state of matrimony. PHILIP And who is the happy man, if I may ask? LOLO Who is he? Why, he is waiting outside now--with that carriage. MIZZIE Why--a coachman? LOLO But, Countess--a coachman, you say?! Only in the same manner as when your papa himself--beg your pardon!--happens to be taking the bay out for a spin at times. Cab owner, that's what my fiance is--and house owner, and a burgess of Vienna, who gets on the box himself only when it pleases him and when there is somebody of whom he thinks a whole lot. Now he is driving for a certain Baron Radeiner--whom he has just brought out here to see your father, Countess. And I am having my doubts about that Baron Radeiner. PHILIP Permit me to introduce myself--Baron Radeiner. LOLO So that's you, Your Highness? PHILIP I have let nobody but Wasner drive me since I came here. LOLO And under an assumed name at that, Your Highness? Well, we are finding out a lot of nice things about you! COUNT (_appears, very hot_) Well, here I am. (_Taking in the situation_) Ah! LOLO Your humble servant, Count! I have taken the liberty--I wanted to thank you for the magnificent flowers. COUNT Oh, please--it was a great pleasure.... PRINCE And here, old friend, is my son Philip. PHILIP I regard myself as greatly honored, Count. COUNT (_giving his hand to Philip_)