Let me be as the fourth of you without favour." "Lady," said Dalfin, "I have sisters at home, and they were wont to share all the sport of myself and my brothers, even as you say, as of our number without favour.

But always the sisters had the favoured place, because we willed it, and should be unhappy if it were otherwise.

There were some favours which they held as their unspoken right.
"Is not that so in your land, Bertric the Thane, and in yours, friend Malcolm the Jarl ?" Truly this Dalfin knew how to set things in the right way, for even I, who had no sisters, was not left out of that answer.

So we both said that he was right, and she knew well what we meant, and was content.

Moreover, by naming our titles once again, though they were barren enough here in all truth, he told her that it was on our honour to help her.
"I am more than content," she said softly.