She sat or stood, or lay in her bed, and pressed to her heart with both hands the words that said, 'Never doubt me, Jehane,' or 'Ma mye, I shall come to you.' When he came, as he surely would, he would find her a wife--ah, let him come, let him come in his time, so only she saw him again! March went out in dusty squalls, and April came in to the sound of the young lamb's bleat.

Willow-palm was golden in the hedges when the King of England's men filled Normandy, and Gilles de Gurdun, having been healed of his wounds, rode towards Rouen at the head of his levy.

He went not without an understanding with Saint-Pol that he should have his sister on Palm Sunday in the church of Gisors.

They could not marry at Saint-Pol-la-Marche, because Gilles was on his service and might not win so far; nor could they have married before he went, because of his ill-treatment at the hands of the Bearnais.

Of this Gilles had made light.