I merely ask.' 'And what if I do owe a million ?' said Prince Eugen with assumed valour.
'Oh, nothing, my dear Eugen, nothing.

Only it is rather a large sum to have scattered in ten years, is it not?
How did you manage it ?' 'Don't ask me, Aribert.

I've been a fool.

But I swear to you that the woman whom you call "the lady in the red hat" is the last of my follies.
I am about to take a wife, and become a respectable Prince.' 'Then the engagement with Princess Anna is an accomplished fact ?' 'Practically so.

As soon as I have settled with Levi, all will be smooth.
Aribert, I wouldn't lose Anna for the Imperial throne.