Dansberg.I do not hear him. It is bitter chill.

We should be at the gate, but that I feel

As walking in a wood. I think I smell

The ground-ferns and damp mosses, and the scent

Of puff-balls on the rotting trees. Hark there!

I hear the bull-frogs croaking.

Icelin. I hear the bull-frogs croaking.I don’t hear them.

Dansberg.You’re deaf. There are no bull-frogs near the castle.

Icelin.Ah, yes. It is two silly ravens croaking.

Dansberg.Raymond, you say?