True lover you are indeed, as I thought.

If you are faithful to the king as to the maiden of your choice, both she and I are happy, and it is well." Then I knew not how to thank him; but he said that Etheldreda and Odda, Heregar and the Lady Alswythe, and maybe Guthrum also, as Thora's guardian, were to be thanked as well.
"You have found many friends here in England already, Ranald my cousin," Alfred said.

"Wait until you meet some gathering of them all at Wareham, presently perhaps, where Osmund and Thora are preparing for a wedding--and then make a great thanking if you will, and save words.

But I wonder that I have never heard of this matter from you before, for we have been close comrades." "You must have heard thereof today, my king," I answered; "and you were but beforehand with me.

I could speak of such things now that peace has come.