"What mishap changed her to a maid instead of a boy, I know not.

She would have made a strapping heir.

She has the thigh and shoulders of a handsome man-child at this hour, and she is not three years old." "Sir Jeoffry missed his mark when he called her an ugly brat," said the woman who had nursed her.

"She will be a handsome woman--though large in build, it may be.

She will be a brown beauty, but she will have a colour in her cheeks and lips like the red of Christmas holly, and her owl's eyes are as black as sloes, and have fringes on them like the curtains of a window.