And there the king comes back already! Stop! Suppose I played the child? This idea is promising. Yes, perhaps I may succeed.
Scene VII.
Aridäus. Philotas.
ARIDÄUS.
The messengers have now gone, my prince! They have started on their swiftest horses, and your father's camp is so near at hand, that we can receive a reply in a few hours.
PHILOTAS.
You are then very impatient, king, to embrace your son once more?
ARIDÄUS.
Will your father be less so to press you to his heart again? But let me enjoy your company, dearest prince! The time will speed more quickly in it, and perhaps in other respects it may also have good results, if we become more intimately acquainted with each other. Often already have loving children been the mediators of their angry fathers. Follow me therefore to my tent, where the greatest of my generals await you! They burn with the desire to see you, and offer you their admiration.