"I am no longer friendless.

Now I will tell you what befell me, and then you shall plan what you may, not in anywise thinking too much of me, but for all four of us." She set the blue cloak round her as if chill, and was silent, thinking for a few minutes.

Bertric and I leant on the gunwale close by, and Dalfin set himself on the deck near us.

And all the while she spoke, Bertric was glancing eastward across the still water for the first sign of the breeze we longed for.

I know now that on him was a dread lest it should bring with it the brown sails of Heidrek's two ships; but he did not show it.