“Your mistress lives in Derbyshire. You will hear her name on the way.”
And with a patronising nod to the girls, and another to Regina, the lady left the room.
“Lammas Day!” cried Alexandra, almost before the door was closed. “Gramercy, but we can never be a-ready!”
“Ach! ja, but you will if you hard work,” said Regina.
“And the jousting!” said Ricarda.
“What for the jousting?” asked Regina. “You are not knights, dat you joust?”
“We should have seen it, though: a friend had passed his word to take us, that wist how to get us in.”
“We’ll go yet, never fear!” said her sister. “Phyllis must work double.”
“Den she will lose de sight,” objected Regina.
“Oh, she won’t go!” said Alexandra, contemptuously. “Much she knows about tilting!”