HENRY IV. (_Ironically_). The lamp, yes the lamp!... Do you suppose I don't know that as soon as I turn my back with my oil lamp to go to bed, you turn on the electric light for yourselves, here, and even there, in the throne room? I pretend not to see it! ORDULPH. Well, then, shall I turn it on now? HENRY IV. No, it would blind me! I want my lamp! ORDULPH. It's ready here behind the door. (_Goes to the main exit, opens the door, goes out for a moment, and returns with an ancient lamp which is held by a ring at the top_). HENRY IV. Ah, a little light! Sit there around the table, no, not like that; in an elegant, easy, manner!... (_To Harold_): Yes, you, like that (poses him)! (_Then to Berthold_): You, so!... and I, here (_sits opposite them_)! We could do with a little decorative moonlight. It's very useful for us, the moonlight. I feel a real necessity for it, and pass a lot of time looking up at the moon from my window. Who would think, to look at her that she knows that eight hundred years have passed, and that I, seated at the window, cannot really be Henry IV. gazing at the moon like any poor devil? But, look, look! See what a magnificent night scene we have here: the emperor surrounded by his faithful counsellors!... How do you like it? LANDOLPH (_softly to Harold, so as not to break the enchantment_). And to think it wasn't true!... HENRY IV. True? What wasn't true? LANDOLPH (_timidly as if to excuse himself_). No ... I mean ... I was saying this morning to him (_indicates Berthold_)--he has just entered on service here--I was saying: what a pity that dressed like this and with so many beautiful costumes in the wardrobe ... and with a room like that (_indicates the throne room_).... HENRY IV. Well? what's the pity? LANDOLPH. Well ... that we didn't know.... HENRY IV. That it was all done in jest, this comedy? LANDOLPH. Because we thought that.... HAROLD (_coming to his assistance_). Yes ... that it was done seriously! HENRY IV. What do you say? Doesn't it seem serious to you? LANDOLPH. But if you say that....