The matter is even smaller than I thought.

Just of one wizard--" "Izwa!" (loudly).
"-- just of a few deaths and some sicknesses." "Izwa!" "Just of one death, one principal death." "Izwa!" (very loudly).
"Ah! So we have it--one death.

Now, was it a man ?" "Izwa!" (very coldly).
"A woman ?" "Izwa!" (still more coldly).
"Then a child?
It must be a child, unless indeed it is the death of a spirit.

But what do you people know of spirits?
A child! A child! Ah! you hear me--a child.

A male child, I think.