THE QUEEN.—Well!
SIR ROBERT.—And rents must be less if that is the case, and—
THE QUEEN.—Well!
SIR ROBERT.—And that the landowners won’t agree to.
THE QUEEN.—Well!
SIR ROBERT.—And, then, I can’t keep my place a day.
THE QUEEN.—Then the majority of my subjects are to be rendered miserable for the advantage of the few?
SIR ROBERT.—That’s the principle of all good governments. Besides, cheap bread would be no benefit to the masses, for wages would be lower.
THE QUEEN.—Do you really believe such would be the case?
SIR ROBERT.—Am I regularly called in?