Have no fear! I guarantee it; I know her to the roots.
She desires my welfare, she does my behests.

If I am bound to her by gratitude, so, and in a greater degree, is she to me.

The utmost she will demand is that my bride shall be worthy of me--a good mate for me in the fight to come; and I have tested my bride and found her half my heart; therefore she passes the examination with the baroness.' They left the tree behind them.
'We will take good care not to return this way again,' said Alvan, without looking back.

'That tree belongs to a plantation of the under world; its fellows grow in the wood across Acheron, and that tree has looked into the ghastliness of the flood and seen itself.

Hecate and Hermes know about it.