answered the other:
'but the respect she has for your Majesty prevents her from being as
sprightly as she commonly is.' He wagged his head, and answered nothing.
The reception he had given me, and this question, of which I heard, gave
me such a chill, that I never had the courage to speak to him,"--was
merely looked at with a candle by Grandpapa.

"We were summoned to supper at last, where this grave Sovereign still
remained dumb. Perhaps he was right, perhaps he was wrong; but I think
he followed the proverb, which says, Better hold your tongue than speak
badly. At the end of the repast he felt indisposed. The Queen would have
persuaded him to quit table; they bandied compliments a good while on
the point; but at last she threw down her napkin, and rose. The King of
England naturally rose too; but began to stagger; the King of Prussia
ran up to help him, all the company ran bustling about him; but it was
to no purpose: he sank on his knees; his peruke falling on one side, and
his hat [or at least his head, Madam!] on the other. They stretched
him softly on the floor; where he remained a good hour without
consciousness. The pains they took with him brought back his senses, by
degrees, at last. The Queen and the King [of Prussia] were in despair
all this while. Many have thought this attack was a herald of the stroke
of apoplexy which came by and by,"--within four years from this date,
and carried off his Majesty in a very gloomy manner.

"They passionately entreated him to retire now," continues Wilhelmina;
"but he would not by any means. He led out the Queen, and did the other
ceremonies, according to rule; had a very bad night, as we learned
underhand;" but persisted stoically nevertheless, being a crowned
Majesty, and bound to it. He stoically underwent four or three other
days, of festival, sight-seeing, "pleasure" so called;--among other
sights, saw little Fritz drilling his Cadets at Berlin;--and on the
fourth day (12th October, 1723, so thinks Wilhelmina) fairly "signed
the Treaty of the Double-Marriage," English Townshend and the Prussian
Ministry having settled all things. [Wilhelmina, _Memoires de Bareith,_
i. 83, 87,--In Coxe (_Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole,_ London, 1798),
ii. 266, 272, 273, are some faint hints, from Townshend, of this Berlin
journey.]

"Signed the Treaty," thinks Wilhelmina, "all things being settled."
Which is an error on the part of Wilhelmina. Settled many or all
things were by Towns