Moreover, we do not part thus easily.

Our lady here will be safe enough among the nuns--more safe than I can keep her.

Give me an hour, and I will set her there and join you.

Both of us owe a debt to Masouda, and it is not right that it should be paid by you alone." "Nay," answered Godwin; "look upon Rosamund, and think what is about to befall this city.

Can you leave her at such a time ?" Then Wulf dropped his head, and trusting himself to speak no more words, Godwin mounted his horse, and, without so much as looking back, rode into the narrow street and out through the gateway, till presently he was lost in the distance and the desert.
Wulf and Rosamund watched him go in silence, for they were choked with tears.
"Little did I look to part with my brother thus," said Wulf at length in a thick and angry voice.