"But one need fear little from him, as I think.

Who will heed a crazy priest ?" "Many," answered Gerent.

"The more because they deem him inspired.
I will have him taken and brought to me." There fell a little uneasy silence after that outburst of the king's, but I felt that I had not yet heard all that they would tell me.

So we waited for the old king to speak, and at last he turned suddenly to the princess, setting his thin white hand on her shoulder, and said: "Now tell Oswald what foolishness brought you here, Nona, daughter of Howel, that he may say what he thinks thereof." "Maybe he also will think it foolishness, King Gerent," she said in her low clear voice.

"But however that may be, I will tell him, for in what I have to say may be help.