Some such answer did I make him, and he smiled his satisfaction.
"You shall journey as you are," he bade me.

"I am guided by my sister, assured that the coat of a Fool is stouter protection than the best hauberk ever tempered.

When you have done your errand come you back to me, and you shall have employment better suited to one who bears the name of Biancomonte." "You may depend upon me in this, my lord," I promised gravely.

"I shall not fail you." "It is well" said he; and those wondrous eyes of his rested again upon my face.

"How soon can you set out ?" "At once, my lord.