And a captain of the king's house-carles will always look to be rewarded for service with lands.

In time you will seek the same." "That time has not yet come to me, King Ina." "Eastdean lies in my hand here," he said, taking up a parchment with a great seal on it.

"I may give it to whom I will, but you are the lawful heir who should hold it from me.

If it goes not to you, it may be that one whom you would not shall have it." Then I said, not seeing at all what the king would have me do, but thinking that he deemed me foolish for not taking the lands straightway: "Let me bide with you even yet for a while.

When the time comes that I must leave you I must go to Owen, and neither he nor I care for aught but to be here.