Soon thereafter, Ophelia bursts into her father’s room, relating an unsettling encounter she had just had with Prince Hamlet. Reynaldo is reluctant to do this, but Polonius assures him that slandering his son in public is the only way to a get a true report of his son’s reputation. Reynaldo, Polonius says, is to dissimulate someone who has a passing acquaintance of Laertes and under that pretext enquire about for Laertes and slander him. We are in Polonius’ house as Polonius, the busybody, instructs his servant, Reynaldo, on what he-Reynaldo-is to do before delivering the money that Laertes is expecting from his father. Additional character(s): Reynaldo-Polonius' servant
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