_Reg._ Sister, you'll go with us?
_Gon._ No.
_Reg._ 'Tis most convenient: pray you, go with us.
_Gon._ [_Aside_] O, ho, I know the riddle.--I will go.
_As they are going out, enter_ EDGAR _disguised._
_Edg._ If e'er your grace had speech with man so poor,
Hear me one word.
_Alb._ I'll overtake you. Speak.
[_Exeunt all but_ ALBANY _and_ EDGAR.
It would appear from this that all the leading persons are to go to a
Council of War with the ancient (plural) in Albany's tent; and they are
going out, followed by their armies, when Edgar comes in. Why in the
world, then, should Goneril propose (as she apparently does) to absent
herself from the Council; and why, still more, should Regan object to
her doing so? This is a question which always perplexed me, and I could
not believe in the only answers I ever found suggested, viz., that Regan
wanted to keep Edmund and Goneril together in order that she might
observe them (Moberly, quoted in Furness), or that she could not bear to
lose sight of Goneril, for fear Goneril should effect a meeting with
Edmund after the Council (Delius, if I understand him).
But I find in Koppel what seems to be the solution
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