VIERECK.
Cards, Your Majesty? For eighteen years now I cannot recall having seen a card in the palace.
QUEEN.
We will change all that. Ladies, you have not yet heard my plans, you do not yet know what surprises this evening has in store for you—
HOLZENDORF.
Surprises, Your Majesty?
QUEEN (indicating a card-table near the window).
Sit down there, my dear Holzendorf. Try your luck with Frau von Viereck.
VIERECK (aside).
Heavens—play cards there? When every outline of my shadow can plainly be seen through that curtain?