First Aunt: That's it, and that is what brought
ourselves along with him—to see would we be
satisfied.
King: I don't know. The girl is young—
she's young.
First Aunt: It is what we were saying, that
might be no drawback. It might be easier train
her in our own ways, and to do everything that
is right.
King: Sure we are all wishful to do the thing
that is right, but it's sometimes hard to know.
Second Aunt: Not in our place. What the
King of the Marshes would not know, his counsellors
and ourselves would know.
Queen: It will be very answerable to the Princess
to be under such good guidance.
First Aunt: For low people and for middling
people it is well enough to follow their own opinion
and their will. But for the Prince's wife to have
any choice or any will of her own, the people would
not believe her to be a real princess.
(Princess comes to door, listening unseen.)
King: Ah, you must not be too strict with a
girl that has life in her.
Prince: My seven aunts that were saying they
have a great distrust of any person that is lively.