RESOLUTE
(half against her will).
There's cure for ague in our forest herbs.
SARAH.
Oh, had I but your knowledge—! (With an effort towards healing the breach.) If you'll take back your words about sin and ignorance, never again will I call you a mincing white-faced moppet—even if you are one.
RESOLUTE
(provokingly prim).
I may not take back words that I have spoken.
SARAH.
Then you are a prim-mouthed, white-faced jade, even as I have said.
RESOLUTE.
And that you dwell in sin and ignorance becomes more and more certain.