The child, on the contrary, would by no means listen to this, declaring she had been called Undine by her parents, and Undine she would still be called. Now this seemed to me a Pagan name, which stood in no calendar, and therefore I took counsel of a priest in the city.

Make up something that I can believe. Say yer never 'ad a 'and in this, an' I'll kiss the ground yer walk on.

Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat.

Now are they saints all in that city sam.