RACHEL [Laughing.] Your lordship pokes fun at us.
DICKON His lordship is an artist in words, mistress. I have noticed that in whatever country he is travelling, he tinges his vocabulary with the local idiom. His lordship means, of course, not pumpkins, but pomegranates.
RACHEL We forgive him. But, your lordship, please be serious and describe to us your hall.
RAVENSBANE Quite serious: the hall. Yes, yes; in the middle burns a great fire—on a black—ah!—black altar.
DICKON A Druidical heirloom. His lordship’s mother collects antiques.
RACHEL How fascinating!
RAVENSBANE Quite fascinating! On the walls hang pieces of iron.
DICKON Trophies of Saxon warfare.
RAVENSBANE And rusty horseshoes.
GENERAL MURMURS Horseshoes!