He comes in his automobile from Naples. Everything is to be as on my employer's former visits—strictly incognito. It [pg 016] is understood every one shall address him as Herr von Gröllerhagen—

MARIANO

[repeating the name carefully]

Herr von Gröllerhagen—

RIBIERE

He wishes to be thought a German.

[Takes a note-book from case.]

MARIANO

Such a man! of caprice? Excentrique? Ha!

RIBIERE