COUNT (goes to meet him)

GARDENER

Good morning, Your Highness.

PRINCE

Hello, Peter.

GARDENER (goes out toward the right)

PRINCE (wears a light-colored Summer suit; is fifty-five, but doesn't look it; tall and slender; his manner of speech suggests the diplomat, who is as much at home in French as in his native tongue)

COUNT

Delighted, old chap. How goes it?

PRINCE