I saw her a few nights ago.' "I didn't understand him, and then he explained--though I didn't understand THAT much better.

He said he had a gift--or a curse.

Them was his words, Mistress Blythe--a gift or a curse.

He didn't know which it was.

He said a great-great-grandmother of his had had it, and they burned her for a witch on account of it.