Lady [answering with frigid distinction]
Probably not, but the Prince can never be found and is always forgiven. It is much to be loved in secret by a——
1st Courtier [laying finger on his lips]
Hush!
2d Courtier [reprovingly]
At court one must try not to think aloud or one is perhaps overheard by—[makes the motion of a blade across his throat].
2d Lady
O nonsense! Why, Phedro confides in everybody, and so nobody ever believes him. Yet he is always quite right.
2d Courtier
He puts his nose into the dust that is swept out of great corners. Indeed he looks in unthinkable places, and finds the incredible.