“Well, go on.”
“A private carriage will be in waiting for his Majesty, and he and his two companions will drive in that to the Palace.”
“But a carriage cannot get any closer to the stage than ours to-day—that is some forty or fifty yards from the landing-place.”
“His Majesty has used that stage more than once when returning privately to the city.”
“Since you have been giving away this information?”
“Yes, once—about six weeks ago.”
“Will that part be policed?”
“It never is. His Majesty does not go in fear of any section of his people. He ridicules the very suggestion of such a thing, Mr. Donnington.”
“And M. Franco and M. Volheno?”
“Are of the same opinion so far as the capital is concerned. Of course, it would be different in Oporto. The revolutionaries are strong there. But in Lisbon there is no more than discontent which the police can suppress.”