_Tino_. I said, I think, that I was promised help.
_C. P._ Yes, you said that all right.
_Tino_. And I added that there was no help when the trouble came.
_C. P._ You said "crisis," not "trouble," but we won't insist on a
trifle like that. Who was the rascal who broke his promise and refused
to help you?
_Tino_. You know well enough that it was your most gracious father.
_C.P._ What! The ALL-HIGHEST! The INMOSTLY BELOVED! The
BEYOND-ALL-POWERFUL! Was it really he? And you believed him, did you?
What a cunning old fox it is, to be sure.
_Tino_. You permit yourself to speak very lightly of the AUGUST ONE, who
also happens to be your father.
_C. P._ To tell you the truth, I don't take him as seriously as he takes
himself. Nobody could.
_Tino_. After what has happened I certainly shall not again. It's
entirely owing to him that I've lost my kingdom and that the hateful
VENIZELOS is back in Athens and that ALEXANDER is seated on my throne.
If your beloved father had only left me alone I should have worried
through all right.
_C. P._ I always tell him he tries to do too much, but he's so
infatuated with being an Emperor that there's no holding him.
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