"Against my return ?" She laid her lips upon his hair.
"I hope it will please thee, my lord," she said.

"Come and see." She made for to rise, but with masterful hands he held her down.

His great strength must have some outlet, lest it should overmaster the gentleness of his love.

Also, perhaps, the primitive instincts of wild warrior forefathers arose, of a sudden, within him.
"I must carry thee," he said.

"Not a step thither shalt thou walk.
Thine own feet brought thee to the crypt; others bore thee thence.