AMADEUS
More than that—or less. He used to be my pupil.
FREDERIQUE
I didn't know that.
AMADEUS
Ten years ago, while still a mere youngster, I used to live in his father's palace. It's hard to tell where I might have been to-day, had it not been for old Prince Lohsenstein. You see, we men have generally another kind of youth to look back at than you ...
FREDERIQUE
... women artists.
AMADEUS
No, countesses, I meant to say. For three years I spent every summer in the palace at Krumau.[1 ] And there—for the first time in my life—I could work in peace, all by myself, with nothing more to do than to instruct Sigismund.