"Has not Salah-ed-din passed his word that except her own will or that of Allah should change her heart, a Cross-worshipper she may live and die?
Lady, for your own sake as well as ours, let this sad farewell be brief.

Begone, my servants, taking these dead and wounded with you.

There are things it is not fitting that common eyes should see." They obeyed, and the three of them remained alone together.

Then Rosamund knelt down beside her father, and they whispered into each other's ears.

Hassan turned his back upon them, and threw the corner of his cloak over his head and eyes that he might neither see nor hear their voices in this dread and holy hour of parting.
It would seem that they found some kind of hope and consolation in it--at least when Rosamund kissed him for the last time, Sir Andrew smiled and said: "Yes, yes; it may all be for the best.