Yet I had it from mine own grandam, my father's mother, and she was a godly woman, too." "And what did she tell thee ?" "My grandam was a Wyvern," said Kate, "as perchance thou knowest, since the match pleased not thy father.

And she was not the first Wyvern who had married a Trevlyn.

It was Isabel Wyvern, her aunt, who had wedded with the redoubtable Sir Richard who had burnt the old witch, and I trow had he been married when the old beldam was brought before him he would have dealt more mercifully with her; for the Wyverns ever protected and helped the gipsy folk, and thought better of them than the rest of the world.

Well, be that as it may, my grandam had many stories about them and their strange ways, their fashion of fortune telling and divining, and the wonderful things they could foretell.

Many a time had a Wyvern been saved from danger and perhaps from death by a timely warning from one of the gipsy folk; and from a child she went fearlessly amongst them, though all men else shunned and hated them." "But the prediction--the prediction ?" demanded Cuthbert eagerly.
"I am coming to that," answered Kate.