Where were your eyes, then?
And where was your nose?
Why, I smelt the cakes a hundred yards away, and you sitting over them, and as you say awake, neither saw them burning nor smelt them! You are enough to break an honest woman's heart with your mooning ways.

You are ready enough to eat when the meal-time comes, but are too lazy even to watch the food as it cooks.

I tell you I will have no more of you.

I have put up with you till I am verily ashamed of my own patience; but this is too much, and you must go your way, for I will have no more of you." At this moment Edmund and Egbert appeared at the door of the hut.

As he had expected from the nature of the colloquy Edmund saw King Alfred standing contrite and ashamed before the angry dame.
"My beloved sovereign!" he cried, running in and falling on his knees.
"My trusted Edmund," Alfred exclaimed cordially, "right glad am I to see you, and you too, my valiant Egbert; truly I feared that the good ship Dragon had long since fallen into the hands of our enemy." "The Dragon lies not many miles hence, your majesty, in the hole in which she was built, by the river Parrot; she has done bravely and has brought home a rich store of booty, a large share of which has been hidden away for your majesty, and can be brought here in a few hours should you wish it." "Verily I am glad to hear it, Edmund, for I have long been penniless; and I have great need of something at least to pay this good woman for all the trouble she has been at with me, and for her food which my carelessness has destroyed, as you may have heard but now." Edmund and Egbert joined in the king's merry laugh.