It is 10.30am in the Carre, the plush VIP area at Paris Saint-Germain's (PSG) stadium and a VVIP arrives, in a tailored, dark suit.
It is the new prince of the Parc des Princes.
In an hour or so, Kylian Mbappé will be presented to the world's media following his extraordinary £165-million transfer from AS Monaco but, for now, it is just him, his father Wilfried, his little brother Ethan and this writer.
Mbappé is still just 18.
Two summers ago, he was celebrating passing his French high school exams, insisting he completed them before furthering his football career; last season he was being driven to training by his mother, Fayza, a former handball player, while he did not have time this summer to finish his own driving lessons because "things got a bit complicated".
They did indeed get complicated.
Now he is the world's most expensive teenager, and the second most expensive footballer yet, after his new teammate, Neymar, who also arrived this summer for £202.8-million from Barcelona.
Along with Edinson Cavani they are poised to create the most thrilling new forward line in football.
But it is Mbappé who is the hottest new property in the game despite, as he readily admits, having had "only six months playing at the highest level" following his remarkable breakthrough at AS Monaco.
And yet when he speaks, greeting me in English, Mbappé is remarkably mature, articulate and level-headed.
He quickly and confidently covers a range of topics, including:I will play the joker
Why he has "come home" to PSG.
What it has been like to live with the "Mbappé soap opera".
How joining Arsenal had been a "real option" after he met Arsène Wenger.
"How spending time at Chelsea when he was 11 - playing alongside Tammy Abraham - gave him the hunger to be a top footballer.
Only one inquiry is deemed off limits: how many big clubs tried to sign him this summer? "No comment - I will play the joker on that one," he replies with a smile.
The answer is simple, though - they all did. "I am a very, very lucky player, a privileged player," Mbappé says.
"And I am over the moon right now. I sit here with a real sense of pride. I have worked hard and been rewarded for it.
"By working hard I have got here. If I work even harder then I can go even higher. Where will I be? That is my source of motivation."
Mbappé is a Parisian, and a PSG fan.
He grew up in the northern suburbs, in Bondy, where it all started when he was six years old playing for AS Bondy.He has maintained his links, not least because his father, originally from Cameroon, still coaches there.
"Being here is like going back home for me," he says of PSG. "I used to come to this stadium when I was a boy to watch games.
"I was a football fan, a kid who loved football and when you are a kid from Paris there are only two stadiums - the Stade de France or the Parc de Princes - and that is what makes Paris so special.
"There is only one club in Paris so every Paris kid follows Paris Saint-Germain. And if that kid has money in his pocket he comes to games here."
As a boy, Mbappé was soon in demand. Big demand. At 11, Chelsea invited him for a week to train and spend time at the club.
I saw things differently
"I was coming from my grass roots, amateur club. It was a whole new world [at Chelsea]. Of course I had an idea what a great football club it was like but I was really impressed by the working culture and the mentality of wanting to be better day in, day out.
"And visiting this infrastructure helped me, actually, with my development. I saw things differently because up until then I had just a French mentality and after that I could pick what was positive in other mentalities and build my own."
He played a match - wearing "Kylian 10" - for Chelsea under-12s where he was partnered in attack by Abraham, who is on loan from Chelsea at Swansea City.
Jeremie Boga, a French midfield player also still at Chelsea, and out on loan at Birmingham City, was also in the team...