A witch, of course.

I have always wished to be friends with a witch." The witch was unaware that the proper answer to this was: "Oh, my Dear, _do_ let's.

Do you know I had quite a _crush_ on you from the first minute." She did not answer at all, and Sarah Brown, who was tired of proper answers, was not sorry.

Nevertheless the pause seemed a little empty, so she filled it herself, saying pedantically: "Of course I don't believe friendship is an end in itself.

Only a means to an end." "I don't know what you mean," said the witch, after wrestling conscientiously with this remark for a minute.