Yet hast thou naught to do to fear her.

And true it is that I saw her and spake with her after thou hadst ridden away.

For she came by the want-ways of the Wood Perilous in the dawn of the day after I had delivered thee; and in sooth she told me that she looked either for Death, or the Water of the Well to end her sorrow." Then he smiled and said; "As for that which thou sayest, that she had been meeter for me than thou, I know not this word.

For look you, beloved, she came, and passed, and is gone, but thou art there and shalt endure." She stayed, and turned and faced him at that word; and love so consumed her, that all sportive words failed her; yea and it was as if mirth and light-heartedness were swallowed up in the fire of her love; and all thought of other folk departed from him as he felt her tears of love and joy upon his face, and she kissed and embraced him there in the wilderness..