Who else ?" "And you would tell me that you love her, and that now you are a knight--almost--and hard on five-and twenty years of age, you would ask her to become your affianced wife ?" "Yes, Godwin; it came into my heart when she rode the grey horse into the water, there upon the pier, and I thought that I should never see her any more.

I tell you it came into my heart that life was not worth living nor death worth dying without her." "Then, Wulf," answered Godwin slowly, "what more is there to say?
Ask on, and prosper.

Why not?
We have some lands, if not many, and Rosamund will not lack for them.

Nor do I think that our uncle would forbid you, if she wills it, seeing that you are the properest man and the bravest in all this country side." "Except my brother Godwin, who is all these things, and good and learned to boot, which I am not," replied Wulf musingly.

Then there was silence for a while, which he broke.
"Godwin, our ill-luck is that you love her also, and that you thought the same thoughts which I did yonder on the quay-head." Godwin flushed a little, and his long fingers tightened their grip upon his knee.
"It is so," he said quietly.