40/41 Now he said only, "I do the best I can! I have little sea room. One Scylla and Charybdis? I saw it coming up the ways that they would give him less and less sea room. He went on, "Merchandise has to be made attractive! The cook dresses the dish, the girl puts flowers in her hair.... Yet, in the end the wares are mighty beyond description! The dish is for Pope and King--the girl is a bride for a paladin!" Again he was right afar and over the great span. |