SCENE XIII
The same, WINGED PRINCE returns hurriedly.
WINGED PRINCE [To FAITHFUL PRINCE.]
A courier has just arrived and brings strange news.
EMPRESS
What is it now?
WINGED PRINCE
The Viceroy of the South sends to explain to your Majesty that the reason that he was unable to reach the palace for the ceremony to which he was invited was because he was taken prisoner at the moment when he was about to enter Nanking.
EMPRESS