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And when , a little time afterward , Dame Sarah asked her how it was that her eyes were so red , she pretended she had been working too long at a piece of fine white embroidery . Dame Sarah thereupon locked up every piece of white embroidery in her wardrobe , so that Michal might not ruin her eyes . When , however , her husband came home and asked whether Barbara had been there yet , she pretended that the woman had not appeared that day also . Next day the witch came again after it had struck two o'clock , locked herself up with Michal in the butcher 's shop , and had a whole hour 's conversation with her . And when Red Barbara had gone away , pretty Michal again went up into her bedroom , and wept till her mother-in-law awoke from her afternoon nap . And when Dame Sarah again asked her why her eyes were so red , she pretended that the scent of the sweet basil plant in her room was too strong , and had given her a headache . Dame Sarah immediately had all the flowers which stood in glazed jars on Michal 's window-sill removed elsewhere .