But what of the lady ?" "If you do not know that by this time," he said gaily, "I am mistaken.

Maybe you had better ask her." "Am I to take her with me ?" "Yes," he said, gravely enough.

"There may be fighting here, and she is best out of the way.

Her folk will hail her, and she will be safe with them, Arnkel notwithstanding.

Thoralf will send his wife and daughter with her that they, too, may be safe." Then he laughed at me again, and said that if all his followers were so ready to leave him, he would be a lonely man shortly, and so on.