Can you imagine a hundred girls in the ballet school, each thinking she would become the most famous dancer in all the world? I was ambitious then. We were drilled like little soldiers. No rest, no stopping. I was little, slim, but hard as a diamond. Then I became famous and - But why am I telling you all this? Last night, I didn't know you at all. Who are you, really?

What?

I don't even know your name.

[laughs]

I am Felix Benvenuto Freihern von Geigern. My mother called me "Flix".

[joyously]

No! Flix! Oh, that's sweet. And how do you live? And what kind of a person are you?

I'm a prodigal son, the black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows.