BARBARA [in a daze] I must follow him.
PIPER
No! 'T is too much. You shall not follow me!
I'll not be followed.—Damsel, sit you down.
Here is too much! I love you not.
BARBARA
[wonderingly]
You do not?
Why did you pipe to me?
MICHAEL
—And steal her wits,
Stealer of all the children!
BARBARA [vaguely] Are they safe?
PIPER
[to MICHAEL]
Oh, your good faith!—
[To her]
They're safe.
BARBARA
I knew—I knew it!
PIPER
And so art thou. But never shall they go
To Hamelin more; and never shale thou go
To be a nun.
BARBARA
To be a nun,—no, no! Ah me, I'm spent.
Sir, take me with you.
MICHAEL
[still enraged to the PIPES]
Rid her of the spell!
Is this thy pledge?