From a finger of his left hand he took the thick ring of gold which Ivo had marked years before in the Wealden hut.
"I have a notion that I am going a long journey," he told her.

"If I do not return, the Lord Ivo will confirm the little lad in these lands of ours.

But to you and for his sake I make my own bequest.

Wear this ring for him till he is a man, and then bid him wear it as his father's guerdon.

I had it from my father, who had it from his, and my grandfather told me the tale of it.