(To Oswald.)
Now then, you
Lay your heart down under the lamplight here,
And I will show a hunch-backed devil in it.
Abbot—Tell us, my son, just how it came about.
Let truth spring out upon the table armed.
(He resumes his seat.)
Oswald—When Father spoke this morning of a chase,
A stag pursued by hounds and things like that,
I simply said that—
Father Benedict—"Simply said!"
Oswald— I said—
Father Benedict—I was one of the hounds, the talbot hound
That led the pack.
Oswald— Why, Father!
Father Benedict— (Advancing toward him.)
You say that
A second time, and by the—