"I wouldn't change it.

Didn't I tell you once that I might have power with the King ?" "Power?
What's that to you?
What's it to any of us beside love ?" "Oh, I don't know anything about your love," she cried fretfully, "but I know what I love--the stir, and the frowns of great ladies, and the courting of great lords.

Ah, but why do I talk?
Do we reason with a madman ?" "If we are touched ever so little with his disease." She turned to me with sparkling eyes; she spoke very softly.
"Ah, Simon, you too have a tongue! Can you also lure women?
I think you could.

But keep it, Simon, keep it for your wife.

There's many a maid would gladly take the title, for you're a fine figure, and I think that you know the way to a woman's heart." Standing above me (for I had sunk back in my chair) she caressed my cheek gently with her hand.