Cicely, if that should be so and any child should come to you, teach it to love the father whom it never saw." Now she threw her arms about him and wept, and wept, and wept.
"If you die," she sobbed, "surely I will do so also, for although I am but young I find this world a very evil place, and now that my father is gone, without you, husband, it would be a hell." "Nay, nay," he answered; "live on while you may; for who knows?
Often out of the worst comes the best.

At least we have had our joy.

Swear it now, sweet." "Aye, if you will swear it also, for I may be taken and you left.

In the dark swords do not choose.

Let us promise that we will both endure our lives, together or separate, until God calls us." So they swore there in the icy gloom, and sealed the oath with kisses.
Now the time was come at last, and they crept their way to the courtyard hand in hand, taking some comfort because the night was very favourable to their project.