And look here, d’you know that you ought never to call a chicken a fowl? It’s awfully bad form. I wonder if that’s in your mother’s books. I say, what charming eyes you have.
Ethel.
That’s another of the advantages of being a royal personage, that you can make pretty speeches, and no one takes them seriously.
Jack Straw.
But you know, I’m a very insignificant royal personage. You mustn’t think I’m anything very grand really.
Ethel.
It’s very nice of you to say so.
Jack Straw.
You see, there are seventy-nine archdukes and duchesses in Pomerania. My grandfather had seventeen children, and they all married. How many children would each have had to make seventy-nine of us?
Ethel.