:15:02
Now don't dally, Your Majesty.
You have a busy day.
:15:05
Morning, Ebba.
:15:07
- What are you doing up so early?
- I couldn't sleep.
:15:10
That means you are happy or unhappy.
Which is it?
:15:13
- Happy.
- I am glad.
:15:15
- And what makes you so happy?
- No reason.
:15:17
How wonderful to be happy for no reason.
:15:20
Let's go for a sleigh ride.
:15:22
- I can't now.
- Why not?
:15:25
- Ambassadors, treaties, councils.
- How boring.
:15:29
- But we'll go afterward, Ebba.
- You always say that.
:15:32
But at the end of the day,
you are never free to go anywhere.
:15:35
You are surrounded by musty old papers
and musty old men...
:15:37
and I can't get near you.
:15:39
Today, I will dispose of them by sundown,
I promise you.
:15:41
And we will go away,
two or three days in the country.
:15:44
- Wouldn't you like that?
- I'd love it.
:15:46
The French Ambassador, Monsieur Chanut,
is waiting in the council chamber.
:15:51
There, they begin.
:15:52
Countess, you're dismissed. Run along.
:15:59
I have good news for you,
Monsieur Chanut.
:16:02
Your countryman, the philosopher
Descartes, is coming here.
:16:05
What happier destiny for a Frenchman
than to come to you, Madame.
:16:10
You are the only Ambassador,
Monsieur Chanut...
:16:13
who doesn't treat me like an institution.
:16:16
I must confess, it's very agreeable.
:16:19
That is charming of you, Madame.
:16:21
But the arrival of the Spanish Ambassador
makes it especially urgent...
:16:25
that you sign the treaty with France now.
:16:28
Do not fear, Monsieur Chanut.
:16:30
The Spaniard's arrival cannot disturb
the natural harmony...
:16:35
between Sweden and France.
:16:36
But the strained relations, Madame,
between my government and Spain...
:16:41
They can never affect ours,
Monsieur Chanut.
:16:46
Madame, you are my despair.
:16:49
Why?
:16:50
Because you rebuff me always
with such charm...
:16:53
that at the end of all our interviews
I find myself always in a veritable glow...
:16:59
of disappointment.