Still, as you say, dear, it is well to have a pleasant companion." Then, as my mother was tired, her maid came, and Sir Roland said, "Good-night." I remember how we both felt sad and lonely, though we could not quite tell why; and that my beautiful mother fell fast asleep, holding my hand in hers; and that they would not take me away, lest they should awake her.
"And my lady has so little sleep," they said, pityingly, "we never awake her." I wish, my darling, that for both of us it had been the long, sweet sleep from which there is no awaking..