“She says that I am too young.”

“She is right, perhaps.”

“It must be so, since she says so.”

“She is a woman, it seems, who knows more than others?”

“She knows everything, since she talks with—”

“With whom does she talk?”

“I must not speak about that; my father will not allow it?”

“Because he is afraid that people will laugh at his sister; but he has no fear of that with me, for he told me to ask her what luck I should have in the hunt.”

“And did she tell you?”

“She did. Where did she learn her science?”