BARBARA
You bewitched them!
PIPER
Yes, so it seems. But how?—Upon my life,
'T is more than I know,—yes, a little more.
[Rapidly: half in earnest and half in whimsy]
Sometimes it works, and sometimes no. There are
Some things upon my soul, I cannot do.
[Watching her.]
BARBARA [expectantly] Not even with thy pipe?
PIPER
Not even so.
Some are too hard.—Yet, yet, I love to try:
And most, to try with all the hidden charms
I have, that I have never counted through.
BARBARA [fascinated] Where are they?
PIPER [touching his heart] Here.
BARBARA
What are they?
PIPER
How do I know?
If I knew all, why should I care to live?
No, no! The game is What-Will-Happen-Next?
BARBARA
And what will happen?
PIPER
[tantalizingly]
Ah! how do I know?
It keeps me searching. 'T is so glad and sad
And strange to find out, What-Will-Happen-Next!
And mark you this: the strangest miracle. . .