You dare to say what you want to say [bitterly]. You have courage enough to satisfy your curiosities like everybody else, but I have always noticed that when people are not curious their manners become extraordinary. However, we are forgetting about the fête. Let us call Phedro.
Prince [bowing]
With pleasure.
[He calls. Phedro emerges after a few seconds at an entirely different angle from the place where he was concealed.]
Phedro
Majesty.
Queen
[Addressing him in a peremptory voice.]
It is my wish that you should think of something bizarre to be included in the festivities of tonight. The Prince and myself do not seem able to put our minds on it.
Phedro