And they will see me, too, in my best green sarcenet, riding on a white palfrey at your side as you promised." "A weapon-showing is not a place for little girls," said the Earl, mollified in spite of himself, casting himself down again on the couch, and playing with the serpent ring on his finger.
"Ah, now," cried his sister, her quick eyes dancing everywhere at once, "you are not attending to a single word I say.

I know by your voice that you are not.

That is a pretty ring you have.

Did a lady give it to you?
Was it our Maudie?
I think it must have been our Maud.
She has many beautiful things, but mostly it is the young men who wish to give her such things.

She never sends any of them back, but keeps them in a box, and says that it is good to spoil the Egyptians.