"I cannot spare them," he answered.
"We should spare them," the queen asserted. June raised her head to listen.
"Titania?" said Oberon, in surprise.
"The fairies ought not to have left London to ugliness," the queen exclaimed; "besides--is it so ugly as you in your eloquence make out?"
"Titania?"
"Even if the fairies have deserted London--and shame to us for it--many men and women, strengthened and inspired by us, have been doing fairy-work there. I am not so sure that London is so hopeless!"
"Titania?"
"May not June go?" the queen then asked.
"I said 'No!'" Oberon declared with loud authority.
"You are as obstinate as ever," Titania observed impatiently. "Since you played your trick on me with that oaf--that clown--that donkey's head; and foolishly I gave way to your tricks and pleading, you have been----"