THE PRINCESS. You like to help people, then?
STRÜBEL. Surely—don't you?
THE PRINCESS. [Reflecting.] No. There's always so much talk about it, and the whole thing immediately appears in the newspapers.
STRÜBEL. What? If you help some one, that appears——?
THE PRINCESS. [Quietly correcting herself.] I only mean if one takes part in entertainments for charity——
STRÜBEL. Oh, yes, naturally. In those things they always get some woman of rank to act as patroness, if they can, and she sees to it, you may be sure, that the newspapers make a fuss over it.
THE PRINCESS. [Demurely.] Oh, not every——
STRÜBEL. Just try to teach me something I don't know about these titled women! Besides, my dear young lady, where is your home—in one of the large cities, or——?
THE PRINCESS. Oh, no. In quite a small town—really more like the country.
STRÜBEL. Then I'm going to show you something that you probably never saw before in all your life.