"You are a man grown.

Do as best pleases you.

Only if you take the blow, begone from Blythburgh." Then Eve, who all this time had been listening, called out from where she stood above the river.
"Brother John, if you fight your cousin Hugh, who is my affianced husband, and fall, on your own head be it, for know, your blood shall not stand between him and me, since it was you who struck him, and not he you.

Be warned, John, and let him go, lest he should send you farther than you wish to travel.

And to you, Hugh, I say, though it is much to ask, if he throws down his sword, forget that unknightly blow and come thither." "You hear," said Hugh shortly to John.