Part 13 (2/2)
”I didn't say I was glad,” she answered
”Some people say so for you”
”There are htiness
”Possibly you mean that I am one?”
”Your Majesty could not be,” she said, curtseying in feigned deference, but adding, mischievously, after a pause: ”Unless, that is--”
”Well, unless what?”
”Unless you tell ers where the Duke of Strelsau is”
Really, I wished that I had been the King
”You don't care where cousin Michael--”
”Ah, cousin Michael! I call him the Duke of Strelsau”
”You call him Michael when you meet him?”
”Yes--by the orders of your father”
”I see And now by mine?”
”If those are your orders”
”Oh, decidedly! We must all be pleasant to our dear Michael”
”You order me to receive his friends, too, I suppose?”
”The Six?”
”You call them that, too?”
”To be in the fashi+on, I do But I order you to receive no one unless you like”
”Except yourself?”
”I pray for myself I could not order”
As I spoke, there came a cheer from the street The princess ran to the