Asbiorn saved me, I think, at that time; but I have never had a chance of escape until tonight.

I saw it coming, and was ready.

You were but a few minutes before me.

Now I know that I am in luck to find comrades." "May it be so," I said, holding out my hand to him.
There was that in the frank way of this Saxon which won me, half Scot though I am, and therefore prone to be cautious with men.

He took it with a steady grip, and smiled, while Dalfin clapped his broad shoulder, and hailed him as a friend in adversity.
"We three should do well in the end, if we hold together," Dalfin said.