De Stancy appeared, and Somerset felt grim as he listened to the gallant captain's salutation of the Princess, and her response.
De S.

Fair Princess, welcome to the court of Navarre.
Paula.

Fair, I give you back again: and welcome, I have not yet.
Somerset listened to this and to all that which followed of the same sort, with the reflection that, after all, the Princess never throughout the piece compromised her dignity by showing her love for the King; and that the latter never addressed her in words in which passion got the better of courtesy.

Moreover, as Paula had herself observed, they did not marry at the end of the piece, as in Shakespeare's other comedies.
Somewhat calm in this assurance, he waited on while the other couples respectively indulged in their love-making, and banter, including Mrs.
Camperton as the sprightly Rosaline.

But he was doomed to be surprised out of his humour when the end of the act came on.