"Who ever heard of a broken heart outside of a romantic novel?
I see that the innkeeper has been holding your ear.

Ah, that innkeeper, that innkeeper! Certainly some day there will come a reckoning." "Yes, indeed," said I.

"Beware of him." "It was twenty years ago," said the Prince.

"It is beyond the recall.
But let me proceed.

Not many years ago there was a Prince, a very bad fellow." "Most of them are." "He married a woman too good for him," went on the Prince, as though he had not heard.
"And another is about to do likewise." "There was some scandal.