Act 1 — SCENE V
Ruth Helen Davis translation
Light Palanquins, each carried by two men, stop before the Pavilion. Two attendants accompany them and mount the steps.
FOUNT
Some eunuchs, come, no doubt, to fetch the Ladies-in-Waiting.
EMPEROR
I thought it was forbidden to employ eunuchs outside of my Palace of Peking!
FOUNT
All privileges are allowed in the Palace of Nan-king.
[They step aside until the Ladies-in-Waiting shall have passed.]