He had thought that in asking him to fight for her she had spoken with the physical definition of that word in mind.
But at the outset she had plunged him into mystery.

If she had asked him to draw the automatic at his side and leap into battle with a dozen of his kind he would not have been surprised.

He had expected something like that.

But this other--her first demand upon him! What could it mean?
Shrouded in mystery, bound by his oath of honour to make no effort to uncover her secret, he was to accompany her back to her home AS HER HUSBAND! And after that--at the end--he was to go out into the forest, and die--for her, for all who had known him.

He wondered if she had meant these words literally, too.