One could not say much with all those eyes on us, as it were, if I had had much to say.

I was glad when the king took up the talk and asked after the welfare of the lady.
"I have sent men across that heath," he said; "at least they will see to those who fell of your party.

I hope they may bring back some not much hurt after all.

A fall from a horse will not be of much account after half an hour." But she shook her head and paled, for, as her father had told me, his men who had fallen were not mounted.

The king saw that the matter was hard for her to think of, and so turned the talk by asking how she liked that steed of mine.
"Sire," she said gravely, "when horse and rider first came suddenly before my eyes, I thought that one of the saints had come to our help.