[voice recognition charm activated]
Poppy?
Much as it grieves me to admit defeat in any arena, personal, professional or in the wider scheme of things...
...I surrender.
I'll be at the Infirmary this afternoon at four o'clock and will submit to your prodding and prying, and take whatever wretched medicine you want to dole out. Just call them off.
And don't you dare deny that those sanctimonious little hobgoblins are following me around at your behest. Call them off before I'm forced to behead the pair of them with a broken retort, drop them in a cauldron and render them down for unsatisfactory candle tallow.
Much as it grieves me to admit defeat in any arena, personal, professional or in the wider scheme of things...
...I surrender.
I'll be at the Infirmary this afternoon at four o'clock and will submit to your prodding and prying, and take whatever wretched medicine you want to dole out. Just call them off.
And don't you dare deny that those sanctimonious little hobgoblins are following me around at your behest. Call them off before I'm forced to behead the pair of them with a broken retort, drop them in a cauldron and render them down for unsatisfactory candle tallow.