For Victoria has come to look for me. There is no need to guess it: she says so in terms. Only mark what follows this admission, and say if I am without a grievance.

‘Why have you come to look for me, Victoria?’

‘I am so miserable.’

‘Why?’

‘You make me miserable.’

‘What have I done, Princess?’

‘What have I done? You have hardly spoken to me for three days.’

‘I thought you would like that best, Victoria.’

‘Why should you think so? What would this place be to me, if we were bad friends?’

‘I trouble you.’