The knight at once directed his steps in that direction, and Walter crept cautiously after him.
"A pest upon these swamps and quagmires," the knight said angrily as he neared the other.

"Why didst not meet me and show me the way through, as before ?" "I thought that as you had come once you would be able to find your way hither again," the man said.

"Had I thought that you would have missed it I would have come ten times as far, rather than have had my name shouted all over the country.

However, there is no one to hear, did you shout thrice as loud, so no harm is done." "I thought I saw a figure a short time since," the knight said.
The man looked round in all directions.
"I see none," he said, "and you may have been mistaken, for the light is waning fast.

It were ill for anyone I caught prying about here.