How do you know that it's an embroidery-frame?
Strübel.
Why, what should a princess be bending over if not an embroidery-frame? Do you expect her to be darning stockings?
The Princess.
It wouldn't hurt her at all!
Strübel.
Now, that's just one of those petty, bourgeois notions which we ought to suppress. It's not enough that we have to stick in this misery, but we'd like to drag her down, too--that being far above all earthly care----
The Princess.
Oh, dear me!
Strübel.