Your Majesty can't keep a secret. There is only one thing Your Majesty can hold fast to, and that is—your money! Ha! ha! I'll fetch the dressing-gown. [He goes out.]
SCENE IV
KING (sitting in his shirt-sleeves).
He's right. It burns my heart out. But they shan't know. Not any of them—they shan't. They've spoiled my pet plans before now. I'll play a different game, this time, and I'll send all the camels through the needle's eye at once. They think I'm on the side of Austria. But no—ha! ha! England's own offer, brought by the Hanoverian courier, was a great surprise to me—he! he! England is my wife's idea—therefore I am for England, too—and soon we'll have the wedding and the christening, ha! ha!
[A lackey comes in, announces.]
LACKEY.
His Highness the Prince Hereditary of Baireuth.
KING.
Pleased to receive him.
[The lackey goes out and the PRINCE comes in.]