Solemnly, yet graciously, Aslauga warned her knight with a motion of her fair right hand, and vanished.
"What have I done to you ?" said Hildegardis when recovered from her swoon by his care, "what have I done to you, evil-minded knight, that you call up your northern spectres before me, and well-nigh destroy me through terror of your magic arts ?" "Lady," answered Froda, "may God help me, as I have not called hither the wondrous lady who but now appeared to us.

But now her will is known to me, and I commend you to God's keeping." With that he walked thoughtfully out of the bower.

Hildegardis fled in terror from the gloomy shade, and, rushing out on the opposite side, reached a fair open grass-plot, where Edwald, in the soft glow of twilight, was gathering flowers, and, meeting her with a courteous smile, offered her a nosegay of narcissus and pansies..