KING.
Wilhelmine!
WILHELMINE.
Your Majesty, what have I done that I am so unhappy as always to arouse your displeasure?
KING.
You call me "Majesty" because you lack a daughter's heart for your father. I have brought up my children in the good old German fashion; I have tried to keep all French vanities and French follies far from their childish hearts; on my throne I have tried to prove that Kings may set an example to their subjects, an example of how the simplest honest household may be ruled. Have I succeeded in this?
WILHELMINE.
You have punished us severely enough for our faults.
KING.
This wigmaker—who was to instruct you in all the ambiguities of the
French language—