Dear nurse, what a beautiful peacock!
[Takes the toy.
FIRST ATTENDANT.
[Looking at the CHILD. In great distress.
Alas! alas! I do not see the amulet on his wrist.
KING.
Don't distress yourself. Here it is. It fell off while he was struggling with the young lion.
[Stoops to pick it up.
BOTH ATTENDANTS.
Hold! hold! Touch it not, for your life. How marvellous! He has actually taken it up without the slightest hesitation.