fanning the King with a palm leaf!

MADHAV. Indeed! Well, well, the sheer audacity of the man takes
one's breath away.

SECOND MAN. We shall have to pitch the fellow out of that
place--is he fit to stand beside the King?

MADHAV. Do you imagine the King will not see through him? His
loyalty is obviously a little too showy and profuse.

FIRST MAN. Nonsense! Kings can't scent hypocrites as we do--I
should not be surprised if the King be taken in by that fool's
strenuous fanning.

[Enter KUMBHA with GRANDFATHER]

KUMBHA. I tell you--he has just passed by this street.

GRANDFATHER. Is that a very infallible test of Kingship?

KUMBHA. Oh no, he did not pass unobserved: not one or two men
but hundreds and thousands on both sides of the street have seen
him with their own eyes.

GRANDFATHER. That is exactly what makes the whole affair
suspicious. When ever has our King set out to dazzle the eyes of
the people by pomp and pageantry? He is not the King to make
such a thundering row over his progress through the country.