Did I not tell thee I would be a great lady.

There is naught a man or woman cannot learn who hath the wit." "Thou hadst it, Clo," said Sir Jeoffry, gazing at her with a sort of slow wonder.

"Thou hadst it.

If thou hadst not--!" He paused, and shook his head, and there was a rough emotion in his coarse face.

"I was not the man to have made aught but a baggage of thee, Clo.