Note 144 — V THE HEIRESS OF GREAT BRITAIN (HERRENHAUSEN, 1701-1714)
Reading edition
Perhaps it may be well not to enquire too closely as to their behaviour when they got there. Sometimes, we are told, the Electress fell asleep; occasionally, she wrote letters to her brother, taking care, however, not to disturb her husband when engaged in reading a play, which he did audibly.