Why then d’ye contradict me, simpleton?

Sostra. Not know?

Chrem. Well, well, you know: I grant it, rather

Than hear your idle story o’er again.

Sostra. Ah, ’tis unjust in you to ask my silence

In such a thing as this.

Chrem. I do not ask it.

Speak if you will: I’ll do it ne’ertheless.

Sostra. Will you?

Chrem. I will.