STRÜBEL. Of course I did.
THE PRINCESS. [Frightened anew.] Then I had rather——
[About to go back.
STRÜBEL. Oh, my dear young lady, you just stay right here. Why, before I'd drive you away I'd pitch myself headlong over a precipice!
THE PRINCESS. [Smiling, reassured.] I only wanted to go out into the woods for half an hour.
STRÜBEL. Oh, then you're a regular guest here at the Inn?
THE PRINCESS. [Quickly.] Yes—yes, of course.
STRÜBEL. And of course you drink the waters down below?
THE PRINCESS. [In a friendly way.] Oh, yes, I drink the waters. And I'm taking the baths, too.
STRÜBEL. Two hundred metres up and down every time! Isn't that very hard on you? Heavens! And you look so pale! See here, my dear young lady, don't you do it. It would be better for you to go down there—that is— Oh, forgive me! I've been talking without thinking. Of course, you have your own reasons— It's decidedly cheaper up here. I know how to value a thing of that sort. I've never had any money in all my life!