Manus: I will turn now and ... boil these
eggs.
(Takes some on a plate; they roll off.)
Princess: You have broken them.
Manus: (Disconcerted.) It was to show you a
good trick, how to make them sit up on the narrow
end.
Princess: That is an old trick in the world.
Manus: Every trick is an old one, but with
a change of players, a change of dress, it comes
out as new as before. Princess (speaks low), I
have a message to give you and a pardon to ask.
Princess: Give me out the message.
Manus: Take courage and keep courage through
this day. Do not let your heart fail. There is
help beside you.
Princess: It has been a troublesome day indeed.
But there is a worse one and a great danger before
me in the far away.
Manus: That danger will come to-day, the
message said in the dream. Princess, I have a
pardon to ask you. I have been playing vanities.
I think I have wronged you doing this. It was
surely through no want of respect.