Guardian: As soon as they are ready you will
call in the Princes for their examination before
them, and their tasks.
Servant: I will.
Guardian: The Messengers will have a good
report to bring back of them. They have come
to be good scholars, in poetry, in music, in languages,
in history, in numbers and all sorts. The
old Queen-Godmother will be well satisfied with
their report.
Servant: She might and she might not.
Guardian: They would be hard to please if they
are not well pleased with the lads, as to learning
and as to manners and behaviour.
Servant: Maybe so. Maybe so. There are
strange things in the world.
Guardian: You're in bad humour, my poor
Gillie. Have you been quarrelling with the cook,
or did you get up on the wrong side of your
bed?
Servant: There is times when it is hard not to
be in a bad humour.
Guardian: What are you grumbling and hinting at?
Servant: There's times when it's hard to believe
that witchcraft is gone out of the world.