Only she sighed, and said: "Let us forget him then.

I would have forgiven him.

He tried to take even my life from me indeed, but instead he has given me all I could long for.

He sent me to meet you, Malcolm, on the sea." Then she laid her hand on my bound arm gently, and smiled at me.
"This is the second time you have saved my life," she said.

"Nor was there one to share the deed this time.