The King. Yes, we were on a cruise round the world together—
Flink. Do you mean the time when the Prince went on account of his lungs?—the present King, I mean?
The King. The Prince that afterwards became King—yes.
Flink. There is quite a royal flavour about our little gathering, then! Here is the King's shipmate, and here is his tutor in jurisprudence—
Koll. You are forgetting yourself! You are the King's tutor's tutor, you know—
The King. Were you Koll's tutor? Really?
Flink (with a laugh). Yes, I had that misfortune!
The King. You hadn't so great a misfortune in your pupil as he had in his!
Koll. The King was a very apt pupil.
Flink (jestingly). He has shown traces of it in his reign, hasn't he!