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"You shall send for whom you please, my friend, but you shall answer

my question before you move from that step"

The seneschal did not move from the step He sent a loiterer to fetch

Melot from the kitchen, while Prosper waited, the centre of an

entranced crowd

"Ah, the suffering maid!" cried the seneschal as he saw Melot near at

hand "My maid, you must speak to Messire in answer to a question he

put irl, asked for his page"

Melot's heart began to thuod was before her, she

unprepared The fire was laid, but wanted kindling Prosper kindled it

for his own consu

"Pray what has this woman to do here?" he asked

"Woain "Woe you fetched in!"

Prosper saw the whole thing in a flash He grew still oodness to infor Pray that I may wait upon her immediately I think," he

added after a pause, "I think that you had better go at once"

The seneschal agreed that he had He went