“In the palace, Your Majesty, providing for some newly arrived wedding-guests.”
“Well, after you’re married, Florimel,” said King Stanislaus seriously, “you must be careful your wife doesn’t lose her mind.”
“Nonsense!”
“No nonsense about it. It often happens to a married woman.”
“How so?”
“Sometimes she keeps on giving her husband a piece of her mind till finally she hasn’t any mind left.”
Suddenly Mignonette and Jassamine, ladies-in-waiting to the queen, ran shrieking from the palace.
“What’s wrong?” cried Florimel.
“The queen!” gasped Mignonette.
“Yes, the poor queen!” said Jassamine, almost in hysterics.