JUNIOR. Let me see, what I can learn from each: (as _she speaks each
name, the character disappears in bookcase_) Griselda,--patience;
Hippolyta,--courtesy; the Good Wife--red stockings--well, that clothes
don't matter. Emily--no _rats!_ (_hides her face for a moment_) The
Prioress--(the two NUNS _disappear_)


PRIORESS. Read the last line that Master Chaucer penned
About me, and believe it without end!


(_She disappears. The_ JUNIOR _looks at the bookcase curtain which
slowly stops swinging._)


JUNIOR. The last line! (_she picks up the book she has thrown upon the
floor and finds the passage_)

"And thereon hung a brooch of gold full sheen,
On which there was first writ a crownèd A,
And after _Amor Vincit Omnia_."


_Amor vincit omnia_, love conquers all. I believe I do love Chaucer
now. And to think they all live!


(_Enter the_ FRESHMAN, SOPHOMORE _and_ SENIOR.)