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 Help you? How?

You see I've fallen in love with someone else meantime.

Meantime? When?

Here, just now, in this very room. She is the most beautiful. ..

[With a pleased laugh.] Oh, my poor boy! Really, I'm so much older than you. ..

[With boyish frankness.] Oh, not your Majesty. She's one of Snow White's Maids of Honour.

A Maid of Honour? You don't mean to say you want to marry one of them! Your father would never consent. They're nice girls and come of quite respectable families&mdash;daughters of dukes and earls and that class&mdash;but you can only marry a Princess.

I'd marry her without my father's consent, even if we had to set up house-keeping in a poor cottage!