Queen: Stop; she is speaking fair and good.
Princess: A little verse, made by some good
wife, I used to be learning. "I always should:
Be very good: At home should mind: My husband
kind: Abroad obey: What people say."
First Aunt: (Getting up.) To travel the world,
I never thought to find such good sense before me.
Do you hear that, Prince?
Prince: Sure I often heard yourselves shaping
that sort.
Second Aunt: I'll engage the royal family will
make no objection to this young lady taking charge
of your house.
Princess: I can do that! (Counts on fingers.)
To send linen to the washing-tub on Monday, and
dry it on Tuesday, and to mangle it Wednesday,
and starch it Thursday, and iron it Friday, and
fold it in the press against Sunday!
Second Aunt: Indeed there is little to learn
you! And on Sundays, now, you will go driving
in a painted coach, and your dress sewed with gold
and with pearls, and the poor of the world envying
you on the road.
Queen: (Claps hands.) There is no one but
must envy her, and all that is before her for her
lifetime!
First Aunt: Here is the golden arm-ring the
Prince brought for to slip over your hand.
Second Aunt: It was put on all our generations of
queens at the time of the making of their match.