[Who has not attended the last part of his speech.]
Yes. To provide at one clip for her—the child of his love, and for me, the result of his duty, proved him a parent, a statesman, and, tonight, I am a little inclined to think, a blackguard. However, you know this marriage has none of my command in it and there are many ways out.
[Phedro invisible to the Queen and the Prince slides into the shadow of a giant oak tree.]
Prince
You mean if either of us——
Queen
That if any charge of unworthiness could be brought by either of you against the other, then it would be my duty even at the last hour——
Prince [suddenly]
Well, unfortunately, my various dissipations have only rendered me romantic in the eyes of your court, and as for Josephine——
Queen