FIRST WAITER
Here comes Susan Chambermaid, may be she can tell.
Enter Susan.
BOTH
Well, Susan, have you heard any thing who the strange gentleman is?
SUSAN Haven't you heard? it's all come out; Mrs. Guesswell, the parson's widow, has been here about it. I overheard her talking in confidence to Mrs. Setter and Mrs. Pointer, and she says, they were holding a sort of cummitty about it.
BOTH
What? What?
SUSAN There can't be a doubt of it, she says, what from hisfigger and the appearance he cuts, and his sumpshous way of living, and above all from the remarkable circumstance that his surname should begin with an H., that he must be—
BOTH
Well, well—
SUSAN
Neither more nor less than the Prince.
BOTH
Prince!
SUSAN
The Prince of Hessy-Cassel in disguise.