Till then you see no more of Yva, for I do not trust her.

She, too, has powers, though as yet she does not use them, and perchance she would forget her oaths, and following some new star of love, for a little while vanish with you out of my reach.

Be in the sepulchre at the hour of sundown on the second day from this, all three of you, if you would continue to live upon the earth.

Afterwards you shall learn my will and make your choice between Yva with majesty and her loss with death." Then suddenly he was gone.
Next morning I told the others what had passed, and we talked the matter over.

The trouble was, of course, that Bickley did not believe me.