One could not say that there was any safety, even for her, among the men who would harm Owen, though I thought that none would be in the least likely to fall on Howel.

Rather, they would keep out of his way altogether.
In my own mind I wished that I was going alone, or with none but Jago, though, on the other hand, it might be possible that men would speak to him if they would not to me.

And at last I did persuade her to bide here until we had news, promising that if need was she should come and see the place herself when all was known.
"Well, maybe it is not so needful that I should go now," she said.
"I thought that I alone could tell my father when that valley was found, but you know as much of it as I, and will be sure when you stand in it." And so we fell to talk of these visions which were so much alike, and there was but one difference in them.

In the dream of the princess the pool had been ruffled, and mine was still as glass.
And that seemed strange, and we could make nothing of it.

Then Howel came back, and there is little more to say of the doings of that evening.