[Enter CARLOS, ROQUE and PANCHO. They carry their school-books. A noise is heard in courtyard.]

ROQUE (stopping; listening). There's stirring in the King's courtyard!

[He runs to closed gates; peeps through a crack.]

CARLOS. Come, Roque, we shall be late to school.

ROQUE (throwing down books). Come, look! They are laying the red carpets in the court!

PANCHO (throwing down books; peeping). 'T is for the King they lay them!

CARLOS. Come, the master will be angry.

ROQUE. But the King will soon be coming!

PANCHO. Let's wait and see him, Carlos!