"Once at sea and on her way south she may well despair of escape, and may consent, from sheer hopelessness, to become his wife.

Were it not that her hut is so strongly guarded at night I would try to approach it, but as this cannot be done I must take my chance in the day.

To-morrow I will dress myself in your garments and will hide in the wood as near as I can to the hut; then if she come out to take the air I will walk boldly out and speak with her.

I see no other way of doing it." On the following morning, attired in the Dane's clothes and helmet, Edmund took his place near the edge of the wood.

It was not until late in the afternoon that Freda made her appearance.