dress court uniform as this man did.

SCHNEIDEKIND. Only officers who are eloping with grand duchesses
wear court uniform: otherwise the grand duchesses could not be
seen with them.

STRAMMFEST. Hold your tongue. [Schneidekind, in high dudgeon,
folds his arms and retires from the conversation. The General
returns to his paper and to his examination of the Grand
Duchess.] This officer travelled with your passport. What have
you to say to that?

THE GRAND DUCHESS. Bosh! How could a man travel with a woman's
passport?

STRAMMFEST. It is quite simple, as you very well know. A dozen
travellers arrive at the boundary. The official collects their
passports. He counts twelve persons; then counts the passports.
If there are twelve, he is satisfied.

THE GRAND DUCHESS. Then how do you know that one of the passports
was mine?

STRAMMFEST. A waiter at the Potterdam Hotel looked at the
officer's passport when he was in his bath. It was your passport.

THE GRAND DUCHESS. Stuff! Why did he not have me arrested?

STRAMMFEST. When the waiter returned to the hotel with the police
the officer had vanished; and you were there with your own