I leave the city at dawn as I have said.

I return not to it till the siege has been raised." The man bowed and retired confusedly.

The Maid lifted the little child in her arms, as was her wont, to carry her to bed.

She turned to her chaplain as she did so: "Come to me at dawn, my father, to hear my confession; and I pray you accompany me upon the morrow; for my blood will be shed.

But do not weep or fear for me, my friends, nor spread any banquet for me ere I start forth upon the morrow; but keep all for my return in the evening, when I will come to you by the bridge." She was gone as she spoke, and we gazed at her and each other in amaze; for how could she come back by a bridge which had been destroyed, and how did she brook such slights as were heaped upon her without showing anger and hurt pride?
"And there is worse yet to come!" cried Sir Guy in a fury of rage, "for I lingered behind to hear and see.