"Why, after dusk I went to my chamber as usual, and I took off my garter—you must, you know, or the charm will not work. It must be the left garter too, so I took it, and knit three knots in it, and then with my eyes shut I said the rhyme—"

"What rhyme?"

"Stupid! You don't seem to know anything. Why, this rhyme, of course,—

"'I knit this knot, this knot I knit

To know the thing I know not yet—

That I may see

The man that shall my husband be,

Not in his best or worst array

But what he weareth every day,