"Major?"
"You must still go on."
"Lieutenant-colonel?"
"You have not yet arrived at my rank in the army."
The officer took his pipe out of his mouth. "Colonel, I presume."
"You have not yet reached my grade."
The officer assumed a more respectful attitude. "Your Excellency is then Lieutenant-general?"
"You are getting nearer the mark."
The puzzled lieutenant-colonel kept his helmet in his hand, and looked stupid and alarmed.
"Then it appears to me that your Highness is Field-Marshal?"