Be more cautious in the future when you talk of friendship—and love.
Farewell.
[She turns to follow the QUEEN.]
PRINCE.
Princess, is this your farewell—while I prepare to meet death or despair?
WILHELMINE.
It's not so easy to die in Vienna.
PRINCE.
And you believe that I will leave you now, when the glamour of the personal presence of a Prince of Wales may dazzle your eye—perhaps even your heart?
WILHELMINE.
I must, I realize it now, begin to consider my heart only from the political point of view.