It may be that it was the pricking of Walpole's conscience for this last outburst that made him later administer a stern rebuke to Lady Craven.

"Ha, Roger, I was deep in my thoughts, what would ye?" "Master, hast ever a pricking in the hairs of thy head?" "Not I." "Dost ever feel a tingling in the soles of thy feet?" "Not so, in truth.

The witch-pricking at the images of wax was what brought her here.

"That little maid is over much with old Hanne," he said, as if he meditated to himself; "she will teach her other prickings than the needle-play.