COUNT
And all that you tell me only now! To-day only—just before the boy is coming here!
PRINCE
You never can tell how a thing like that may be received.
COUNT
Tut, tut! Received, you say...? Did you believe perhaps ... I'm something of a philosopher myself, after all.... And you call yourself a friend of mine!
PRINCE
Not a soul has known it—not a single soul in the whole world.
COUNT
But you might have told me. Really, I don't see how you could.... Come now, it wasn't quite nice.