"This upland country is confused with bustling politics, and pastoral has been worried to death by sickness of heart.

You cannot find the old peaceful life without." "And within ?" she asked.
"That is for you and me to determine, dear.

God grant it.

I have found my princess, like the man in the fairy-tale, but I may not enter the kingdom." "And the poor princess must sit and mope in her high stone tower?
It is a hard world for princesses." "Hard for the knights, too, for they cannot come back and carry off their ladies.

In the old days it used to be so, but then simplicity has gone out of life." "And the princess waits and watches and cries herself to sleep?
"And the knight goes off to the World's End and never forgets." They were at Glenavelin gates now, and stood silent against the moment of parting.