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the young lady
An unnamed eighteen-year-old girl dozing on a sitting-room couch, woken by an old prince's kiss on her hand; she is talked into believing the encounter is a dream and drifts back to sleep complaining of dreaming of 'goats and scoundrels.'
Reading notes
- A Goat, or a Scoundrel? §2 the sleeping girl
The sketch's unnamed young lady of about eighteen, dozing on the couch when the old prince intrudes.