KING. Then you should be well informed at least.
MOTHER-IN-LAW. Is there law and justice in this country?
KING. Both law and justice, but also a lot of wrong-doing.
MOTHER-IN-LAW. Do you know that the Queen's mother—that is, I—has been insulted by the mob?
KING. No, I didn't know, but I have long expected it, as I have told you before this.
MOTHER-IN-LAW. You think it right, then?...
KING. No, I think it wrong of you to wear that dress in public, when it is forbidden. And it is only out of respect for yourself and your—hm!—sex, that I have not long ago ordered you to be stripped of it.
MOTHER-IN-LAW. Ha-ha!
KING. And it has been wrong of me to leave the Convent of Vreta standing for you to live in, when the law demands that it be tom down.
MOTHER-IN-LAW. Ha-ha!