“But have those obtained offspring?”
“Always,” replied the priest smiling.
“And the others whose companions are not so old?”
“Sometimes.”
“Oh! Oh!” said she, “there is more certainty then with one like the seneschal?”
“To be sure,” said the priest.
“Why?” said she.
“Madame,” gravely replied priest, “before that age God alone interferes with the affair, after, it is the men.”
At this time it was a true thing that all the wisdom had gone to the clergy. Blanch made her vow, which was a very profitable one, seeing that her decorations were worth quite two thousand gold crowns.
“You are very joyful!” said the old seneschal to her when on the home journey she made her mare prance, jump, and frisk.