Merci!

My name is Madame Eglantine.

[Hurries out, left.]

CHAUCER

[Aside.]

Hold, Geoffrey!

Yon beastie’s quaking side thumped not as thine

Thumps now. And wilt thou ape a little hound?

Ah, Madame Eglantine, unless ye be

To me, as well as him, St. Charity!