"'Oh, you know very well.'
"'How can I know, when you won't say what you mean?'
"'How many entanglements?'
"'Entanglements?'
"'Yes. Engagements, if you wish me to be so very explicit.'
"'What nonsense! Why you know all about it, and the cause—'
"'Ah, now, that is not frank; it isn't friendly or honest,' said the little witch. 'Come, now. Are there as many as—as—fifty?'
"'Nonsense!'
"'Twenty, then?'
"'How absurd!'