No, no! You must not suffer hardship on my account. Have I deserved that of you?
THE KING.
Do you know, my child, that if I had not had you with me, my treasure, as guardian angel, I should very probably be hanging today on a high gallows for highway robbery?——(He sits down again by the road-side.) And now, let us tarry here in patient expectation of the all-powerful man whose return will decide whether our desire to live in communion with mankind is to be fulfilled.
ACT II
Scene One.
THE WORKSHOP OF A LADIES' TAILOR.
(The King, in journeyman's clothes, sits cross-legged on a table,
working on a woman's gown of rich material.
Master Pandolfo bustles into the room.)