Who? How can you ask? The great, the only one. She of whom everyone speaks—the Ex-Empress of the rebels.
FIFTH OFFICER
Ah, the goddess! So now we are going to see her.
SIXTH OFFICER
And we can judge of her supernatural power——unless she has lost it.
FOURTH OFFICER
Oh, power she still has. Yesterday evening, by order of the Emperor, two eunuchs were decapitated simply for having announced to her the death of her son without preliminary forms.
THIRD OFFICER
And I know something, too, from the Governess of the Palace——To-day the goddess deigned to speak, to request mourning garments——So they searched the wardrobes of the late Empress Regent for all that was most magnificent in the way of white robes and shoes!