King
Read them!
White Rabbit
[Puts on his monocle.]
Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?
King
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end, then stop.
“They told me you had been to her,
And mentioned me to him;
She gave me a good character,
But said I could not swim.
“I gave her one, they gave him two,
You gave us three or more;
They all returned from him to you,
Though they were mine before.
“My notion was that you had been
(Before she had this fit)
An obstacle that came between
Him, and ourselves, and it.
“Don’t let him know she liked him best,
For this must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest,
Between yourself and me.”
King