"It is as if we had been changed into spirits and human beings could not see us." There was seldom much leisure in their meetings.

Sometimes they had only a few minutes in which to exchange a word or so, to cling to each other's hands.

But even in these brief meetings the words that were said were food for new life and dreams when they were apart.

And the tide rose.
But it did not overflow until one early morning when they met in a gorse-filled hollow at Hampstead, each looking at the other pale and stricken.

In Robin's wide eyes was helpless horror and Donal knew too well what she was going to say.
"Lord Halwyn is killed!" she gasped out.