Mrs Jennings. Oh, I must laugh! I do beg your pardon, your Grace, but the whole thing is too extraordinarily absurd. You would never guess for whom I took you!

Duke. For whom did you take me?

Mrs Jennings. First for a commercial traveller—

Duke. A commercial traveller!

Mrs Jennings. And then—and then—oh, it is too dreadful!—for a cook!

Duke. A cook! Me!

Mrs Jennings. Yes, you, your Grace! Did you ever hear anything like it; but, after all, you took me for a Princess.

Duke. But who are you, then? You told me you were the Princess Blakowska.

Mrs Jennings. Yes, but I'm not—I told you that to humour you.

Duke. Upon my word! To humour me?