RESOLUTE
(half against her will).
There's cure for ague in our forest herbs.

SARAH.
Oh, had I but your knowledge--! (With an effort towards healing the
breach.) If you'll take back your words about sin and ignorance, never
again will I call you a mincing white-faced moppet--even if you are
one.

RESOLUTE(provokingly prim).
I may not take back words that I have spoken.

SARAH.
Then you _are_ a prim-mouthed, white-faced jade, even as I have said.

RESOLUTE.
And that you dwell in sin and ignorance becomes more and more certain.

[They face each other as if with crossed swords, left.

GOODY GLEASON
(sighing).
Is the posset done?

SARAH
(despairing).
I cannot tell whether it be done or no.