"Who knows? If his Majesty has done one mad thing he may have done another."
"I must see him at once," said the Premier, "this cannot be allowed to go on."
"You will have to take a very firm tone."
"I would suggest that we all send in our portfolios."
"We have tried that once; he would not accept them now, and we have no power to make him."
"No; that is the damnable thing! That is what makes his position so strong."
"Do you think he knows?"
"Of course; why else has he done it? It's really clever; that's what I can't get over, he has done a clever thing!"
"Who can have put it into his head?"
"It is the most unjustifiable stretch of the royal prerogative that ever I heard of."