"I did but wait." "For what, lady ?" asked Dalfin.
She smiled and reddened somewhat, looking down on the deck.
"One can hardly be mistaken as to whether a man is used to war gear," she said.

"Now I see you three--prince, jarl, and thane--as I might have known you to be at first.

Forgive me for the little doubt." Seeing what sort of scarecrows we must have been, we did not wonder at all that she had doubted.

And, after all, not every day are three men of rank of different lands to be found adrift in an open boat, simply as it had come about in our case.
"It would have been a wonder if you had not doubted," said Bertric.
"We have naught to forgive, and, indeed, have held ourselves honoured that you took our words as you did.

In all truth, I do feel myself again in mail, and so must Malcolm." I did, and said so.