The Erlking grinned smugly. “Nonsense with sauce,”
The phrase "nonsense with sauce" is used three times in this book. Serilda says it twice. It is reprised by the Erlking himself in the third and final time it appears. He both seems to mock her by using it, but he is also copying mannerisms from her, which tends to happen when one spends an inordinate amount of time with another person, and the latter being constantly in the former's thoughts.
