...
CONJURER. [_Smiling._] I sometimes let his Majesty have an evening off.
And turn my attention, of course, to the very highest nobility. But
naturally I have performed before every sovereign potentate, white and
black. There never was a conjurer who hadn't.
DUKE. That's right, that's right! And you'll say with me that the great
business for a King is remembering people?
CONJURER. I should say it was remembering which people to remember.
DUKE. Well, well, now.... [_Looks round rather wildly for something._]
Being really businesslike....
HASTINGS. Shall I take the programmes for your Grace?
DUKE. [_Picking them up._] No, no, I shan't forget. Is there anything
else?
HASTINGS. I have to go down the village about the wire to Stratford. The
only other thing at all urgent is the Militant Vegetarians.
DUKE. Ah! The Militant Vegetarians! You've heard of them, I'm sure.
Won't obey the law [_to the_ CONJURER] so long as the Government serves
out meat.
CONJURER. Let them be comforted. There are a good many people who don't
get much meat.
DUKE. Well, well, I'm bound to say they're very enthusiastic. Advanced,
too--oh, certainly advanced. Like Joan of Arc.
[_Short silence, in which the_ CONJURER _stares at him._]
CONJURER.
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