At which the Queen, contrary to hope, could not conceal her secret pique.

"In fact," says Wilhelmina, again too hard on Mamma, "she did not love her children except as they served her ambitious views." The fact that it was I, and not she, who had achieved the Prince's deliverance, was painful to her Majesty: alas, yes, in some degree! "Ball having recommenced, Grumkow whispered to me, 'That the King was pleased with my frank kind ways to my Brother; and not pleased with my Brother's cold way of returning it: Does he simulate, and mean still to deceive me?
Or IS that all the thanks he has for Wilhelmina?
thinks his Majesty.

Go on with your sincerity, Madam; and for God's sake admonish the Crown-Prince to avoid finessing!' Crown-Prince, when I did, in some interval of the dance, report this of Grumkow, and say, Why so changed and cold, then, Brother of my heart?
answered, That he was still the same; and that he had his reasons for what he did." Wilhelmina continues; and cannot understand her Crown-Prince at all:-- "Next morning, by the King's order, he paid me a visit.

The Prince," my Husband, "was polite enough to withdraw, and left me and Sousfeld alone with him.

He gave me a recital of his misfortunes; I communicated mine to him,"-- and how I had at last bargained to get him free again by my compliance.