Sarah Brown, I don't yet know why you brought me here." "I brought you here to escape the Law," said Sarah Brown.
"How d'you mean--escape the Law?
Didn't you know that all magic lives and thrives on the wrath of the Law?
Have you forgotten our heroic tradition of martyrdom and the stake?
Isn't the world tame enough already?
What do you want Magic to become?
A branch of the Civil Service ?" "I spent all I had in bringing you here," said Sarah Brown.

"I left all I loved to bring you here.

I am as if dead in England now.

Nobody there will ever think of me again, except as a thing that has been heard the last of." The witch looked kindly at her.

"You know," she said, "when you first told me to go away, after Harold made that bad landing on a policeman, I thought perhaps you were a sort of cinema villainess, driving me away from my house and heritage.