I almost frightened you.

And you were only speaking of a little playmate.

Please go on." "I was only going to say that she was fair like that, fairer than any one I had ever seen; but when we played together she seemed like any other child.

She was the first I ever knew." I told him about the misty day on the moor, and about the pale troopers and the big, lean leader who carried Elspeth before him on his saddle.

I had never talked to any one about it before, not even to Jean Braidfute.
But he seemed to be so interested, as if the little story quite fascinated him.