They have just been betrothed when the Countess, mad with jealousy, plays the part of the White Lady and appears to the Princess, to try and terrify her out of the proposed marriage.' 'And the Countess is Miss Bretherton ?' 'Yes.

Of course the malicious people say that her get-up as the White Lady is really the _raison d'etre_ of the piece.

But hush! there is the signal.

Make up your mind to be bored by the Princess; she is one of the worst sticks I ever saw!' The first scene represented the ballroom at the Schloss, or rather the royal anteroom, beyond which the vista of the ballroom opened.

The Prussian and Wuertemberg royalties had not yet arrived, with the exception of the Prince Wilhelm, on whose matrimonial prospects the play was to turn.