Now I have escaped that.

Tell me how it may have been." I did so, wondering all the time how she came to be in that terrible place, for she spoke of escape.

That she would tell us in her own time, no doubt.
"What can be done now ?" she asked, speaking to us as to known friends, very bravely.
If she had doubts of us, she hid them.

Perhaps that we owned to being escaped captives explained much to her--else she had surely wondered that the tattered Dalfin claimed to be a prince.

Yet he was princely, both in look and bearing, as he rose up and made himself known, with a bow which none but a courtier could have compassed.
"Bertric is shipmaster," I said; "he will answer." "The ship is yours, lady, and we can but serve you," he answered.
"Now, it depends on the wind when it comes with dawn, as no doubt it will, what course we can take, for we are too few to work the ship rightly.