The Lady: — Why is he green, do you think?
Sir Gawain: — The knight?
The Lady: — Yes. Was he born that way?
The Lord: — Perhaps it is the color of his blood when he blushes.
The Lady: — But why green? Why not blue or red?
Sir Gawain: — Because he is not of this earth.
The Lady: — But green is the color of earth, of living things, of life.
Sir Gawain: — And of rot.