She was obliged to embrace me, the King being close opposite; but I remarked that her joy was only affected."-- Why then, O Princess?
Guess, if you can, the female humors of her Majesty!-- "I turned to my Brother again; I gave him a thousand caresses, and said the tenderest things to him: to all which he remained cold as ice, and answered only in monosyllables.

I presented the Prince (my Husband); to whom he did not say one word.

I was astonished at this fashion of procedure! But I laid the blame of it on the King, who was observing us, and who I judged might be intimidating my Brother.

But even his countenance surprised me: he wore a proud air, and seemed to look down on everybody." A much-changed Crown-Prince.

What can be the meaning of it?
Neither King nor he appeared at supper: they were supping elsewhere, with a select circle; and the whisper ran among us, His Majesty was treating him with great friendliness.