And if she pleases my lord well, who knows but he may give her a pair of watches to hang at her ears, or a box that Paracelsus himself could not open without the secret as well as the key?
I have heard of both such.
They say my lord hath twenty cartloads of quite as wonderful things in that vault he calls his workshop.

Hast thou never marked the huge cabinet of black inlaid with silver, that stands by the wall--fitter indeed for my lady's chamber than such a foul place ?' 'I have seen it,' answered Scudamore.
'I warrant me it hath store of gewgaws fit for a duchess.' 'Like enough,' assented Rowland.
'If mistress Dorothy were to find the way through my lord's favour into that cabinet--truly it were nothing to thee or me, Rowland.' 'Assuredly not.

It would be my lord's own business.' 'Once upon a time I was sent to carry my young lady Raven thither--to see my lord earn his bread, as said my lady: and what should my lord but give her no less than a ball of silver which, thrown into a vessel of water at any moment would plainly tell by how much it rose above the top, the very hour and minute of the day or night, as well and truly as the castle-clock itself.

Tell me not, Rowland, that the damsel hath no design in it.

Her looks betoken a better wisdom.