All right—later. For the moment there are more important things.
ALBERT
More important...?
AMADEUS
Yes, I want you to do me a great service ... a service that will brook no delay. You have to act as my second.
ALBERT (rising)
Your...? Twaddle! You'll simply refuse the challenge! You're not going to let yourself be killed for the sake of Madame Philine—oh, no!
AMADEUS
It is not a question of Philine. And I have not been challenged. I shall issue the challenge. And for that reason I want you to look up our friend Winter at once, and then I must trouble both of you to call on Prince Sigismund, and tell him....
ALBERT (interrupting him and breaking into laughter)