"Do tell me--do you know yourself, or are you just saying it to see what it means ?" Sarah Brown was obviously damped by this, and the witch added kindly: "I bet you twopence you don't know what this place is." "A shop," said Sarah Brown, who was sitting on the counter.
"It is a sort of convent and monastery mixed," replied the witch.

"I am connected with it officially.

I undertook to manage it, yet I forget what the proper word for me is.

Not undertaker, is it ?" "Superintendent or secretary," suggested Sarah Brown moodily.
"Superintendent, I think," said the witch.

"At least I know Peony calls me Soup.