FOUNT
Some eunuchs, come, no doubt, to fetch the Ladies-in-Waiting.
EMPEROR
I thought it was forbidden to employ eunuchs outside of my Palace of Peking!
FOUNT
All privileges are allowed in the Palace of Nan-king.
[They step aside until the Ladies-in-Waiting shall have passed.]
SCENE VI
The EMPEROR, FOUNT-IN-THE-FOREST, the LADIES-IN-WAITING, and the EUNUCHS.