Oh! Don't trouble. [Looks around.] These are your artists? Very glad——
Mancini
[Straightening and bowing slightly]: Count Mancini.
Gentleman
[Surprised]: Count?
Briquet
[Indignantly]: Yes, Count. And whom have I the honour of——
Gentleman
I don't quite know myself—yet. As a rule you choose your own names, don't you? I have not chosen yet. Later you might advise me about it. I have an idea already, but I am afraid it sounds too much like literature—you know.
Briquet