----But I cannot be answerable for the consequences. Unforeseen accidents may happen.
PRINCE.
Is it my custom to make people answerable for what they cannot help?
MARINELLI.
Therefore your Highness will--(a pistol is fired at a distance). Ha! What was that? Did not my ears deceive me? Did not your Highness also hear a shot. And hark! Another!
PRINCE.
What means this? What is the matter?
MARINELLI.
How if I were more active than you deemed me?