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"I'd have had that chaplet for myself, if I'd been that lady!" said Alexandra as they went forward. "I'd never have cast that away for a christening gift." "Nay, but her lord would not find the money," answered Ricarda. "I'd have had it, some way," said her sister. "It was fair enough for a queen. Amphillis, I do marvel who is the lady thou shalt serve.
She now turned her artillery upon Perrote, whom she scolded in the intervals of heaping unsavoury epithets upon Amphillis and Ricarda, until Amphillis thought that everything poor Perrote had ever done in her life to Lady Foljambe's annoyance, rightly or wrongly, must have been dragged out of an inexhaustible memory to lay before her. At last it came to an end.
She saith 'tis thy doing, Phyllis." "Mine?" exclaimed Amphillis. "She saith so. I wis not how. And art happy here, my maid? Doth thy dame entreat thee well? and be thy fellows pleasant company? Because if no, there's room for thee in the patty-shop, I can tell thee. Saundrina's wed, and Ricarda looks to be, and my wife and I should be full fain to have thee back for our daughter.
I was none so sorry to come away, I can tell thee. I hate to be ruled like a ledger and notched like a tally!" "Thou shalt find things be well ruled in this house, Rica," said Amphillis, thinking to herself that Ricarda and Agatha would make a pair, and might give their mistress some trouble.
"And what like shall the jousting be, Clement?" asked Ricarda, when that young gentleman had been satisfactorily settled on a form inside the shop, with a substantial cheese-cake before him not a mere mouthful, but a large oval tart from which two or three people might be helped.
However, Clement suffered himself to be persuaded to do what he liked, and Ricarda going close to her sister to fetch a plate, whispered to her a few words of warning as to what she might lose by too much coldness, whereupon the fair Alexandra thawed somewhat, and condescended to seem slightly interested in the coming event. Ricarda, however, continued to do most of the talking.
But with all the scope of the theme there is a lack of genuine historical color; and compared with the great historical novel of Ricarda Huch, this anachronistic picture of the past seems like the story of another Robinson Crusoe.
"Well, mind thou, not for nothing of no sort to let on to my Lady that Father is a patty-maker. I were put forth of the door with no more ado, should it come to her ear that I am not of gentle blood like thee." "Ricarda! Is my Lady, then, deceived thereon?" "'Sh 'sh! She thinks I am a Neville, and thy cousin of the father's side. Thee hold thy peace, and all shall be well."
"Cannot the stupid thing take them forth by herself?" "I bade her not do so," explained her sister, "but call one of us she is so unhandy. Go thou, Ricarda, or she'll be setting every one wrong side up." Ricarda, with a martyr-like expression which usually means an expression very unlike a martyr's rose and followed Amphillis.
"Lammas Day!" cried Alexandra, almost before the door was closed. "Gramercy, but we can never be a-ready!" "Ach! ja, but you will if you hard work," said Regina. "And the jousting!" said Ricarda. "What for the jousting?" asked Regina. "You are not knights, dat you joust?" "We should have seen it, though: a friend had passed his word to take us, that wist how to get us in."
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