"As yet I am neither of these things, though the latter of them I hope to be.

Come; let us be going." "Ay," echoed Wulf, stepping to her side, "let us be going." Rosamund started at the words, and all there stared.

"Listen, Queen, Emirs, and People," he went on.

"I am this lady's kinsman and her betrothed knight, sworn to serve her to the end.

If she be guilty of a crime against the Sultan, I am more guilty, and on me also shall fall his vengeance.