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Catherine : Officer! Officer! Please show me the way out.
Grand Duke Peter : Out of where?
Catherine : Out of the palace! Out of the town! Out of the whole barbarian country!
Grand Duke Peter : What's happened?
Catherine : He insulted me!
Grand Duke Peter : Who?
Catherine : The Grand Duke Peter.
Grand Duke Peter : Oh, that fellow.
Catherine : You know him?
Grand Duke Peter : Oh, yes, I know him.
Catherine : Oh, then perhaps you know why he refuses to marry me... why he refuses even to see me.
Grand Duke Peter : Well... well, perhaps they suggested some other German princesses to him. Maybe... maybe he prefers one of them.
Catherine : Which one?
Grand Duke Peter : Well, there's the, uh, Mecklenburg princess.
Catherine : Oh, that's impossible!
Grand Duke Peter : Why?
Catherine : Because she has a cavalier moustache and rabbit's teeth.
Grand Duke Peter : Well, then there's the, uh, the Oldenburg princess.
Catherine : Which one? Which one? There are four. Oh, old maids! I know them all. I tell you I'm far the best, and far the prettiest too.