HOTHAM (still cautious, but smiling).
Just as little as you are in the Palace of St. James at this moment.
PRINCE.
But what am I to think? What am I to believe?
HOTHAM.
You are to believe that you could well afford to place more confidence in Hotham's friendship, devotion—and cleverness.
PRINCE.
The Prince of Wales is not in Berlin?
HOTHAM.
H'st! We know he is not here—but he is here for all the others. The Prince of Wales is here, there, behind the screen, up the chimney, in the air, under the earth, nowhere where he would be in our way, but anywhere where we might need him for the merriest comedy in all the world.