The Chancellor.
None the less, Sire, we cannot have our Princess remain a sp... er ... unmarried!
Moss-Rose.
[With quick curiosity.] What is the word you were going to say, beginning with s-p?
The Chancellor.
Ahem! Pardon, my dear; I was not going to say anything of the sort! There is no word applicable to the situation beginning with s-p!
Moss-Rose.
Oh, but there is; a word that has been blotted out of all the dictionaries in my school-room!
The King.