The King detests all things foreign, and most of all does he detest
France, her literature, her language.
PRINCE.
The Crown Prince is aware of that. He sends you therefore, as a beginning, a member of his Rheinsberg circle, a talkative but very learned little man, a Frenchman, Laharpe by name—
WILHELMINE.
All instructors of the French language have been banished from Berlin by strictest order.
PRINCE.
Laharpe will come to you without his identity becoming known.
WILHELMINE.
That is impossible. No one dare approach me who cannot first satisfy the questioning of the Castle Guard.