“How? You know all about it? Who could have told you?”
“No one told me.”
“Oh, you have been eavesdropping. Ah, ha!”
“I had to. I could not go back, and of course I was not permitted to enter.”
“Hm! Never mind. It is all right, just the same.”
“Oh, no, Your Majesty.”
“How? What do you mean?”
“I share the anxiety and trouble of your proud consort.”
“Nonsense! You ought not to be troubled.”
“By all the saints, Your Majesty, I shall be inconsolable and unhappy if you do not abandon your decision. I should be ashamed to serve a prince who can so easily renounce his rights and his dignities.”