"Wilt thou again to the wood ?" said she.

"Didst thou not bid me fare thither yesterday ?" said he.

"Yea," she said; "but to-day I fear lest thou depart and come not back." He laughed and said: "Seest thou not, mother, that I go afoot, and I in hauberk and helm?
I cannot run far or fast from thee.

Also" (and here he broke off his speech a little) "where should I be but here ?" "Ah," she said, "but who knows what may happen ?" Nevertheless she went and fetched his war-gear and looked at him fondly as he did it on, and went his ways from the hall.
Now he entered the wood more to the south than he had done yesterday, and went softly as before, and still was he turning over in his mind the thoughts of last night, and ever they came back.

"Might I but see her! Would she but love me! O for a draught of the Well at the World's End, that the love might last long and long!" So he went on a while betwixt the trees and the thickets, till it was a little past noon.