"But you forget there is a price to pay first, my child."
"No, I do not, sir. I remember it very well. It is not a thing to forget so soon. Bad as you have made me, I have not yet been guilty of so many sins that this one should be lost in the throng."
"Well, well, my child, we need not go into ethics now. Do I understand that you mean to pay the Chancellor his price."
"I do."
"I congratulate you on your good sense."
"I want no congratulations. I only want a throne; and for that I am ready to disgrace myself, as you have taught me, sir. So if you will tell me how this business is to be arranged, it shall be done."
"Turbo will be in the street on which the little garden door opens. You can send her to him with a note, and he will manage the rest. See, here is a letter that I have already prepared."
"What is in it, sir?"
"Nothing; it is a mere pretence."
"Does he really mean to come in person?"