"She has been crossing her lover, and he is in dudgeon for a while--that is all." "I am glad," he said.

"Asked you aught of Uldra ?" "I have not spoken of it to her." "Is that so ?" said Olaf, smiling.

"Now she is likely to have more than common interest in you, for one reason or another." Then I said frankly, knowing what he meant: "And I in her.

That is partly the reason why I must go with Wulfnoth and Godwine westward.

And the rest of the reason is this, that I would be near Eadmund.