Dost thou not remember the oath which we swore each to each but a little while ago?
And dost thou deem that I have changed in these few days?
Is thy mind concerning thee and me the same as it was?
If it be not so, now tell me.

For now have I the mind to do as if neither thou nor I are changed to each other, whoever may have kissed mine unwilling lips, or whomsoever thy lips may have kissed.

But if thou hast changed, and wilt no longer give me thy love, nor crave mine, then shall this steel" (and she drew a sharp knife from her girdle) "be for the fool and the dastard who hath made thee wroth with me, my friend, and my friend that I deemed I had won.

And then let come what will come! But if thou be nought changed, and the oath yet holds, then, when a little while hath passed, may we thrust all evil and guile and grief behind us, and long joy shall lie before us, and long life, and all honour in death: if only thou wilt do as I bid thee, O my dear, and my friend, and my first friend!" He looked on her, and his breast heaved up as all the sweetness of her kind love took hold on him, and his face changed, and the tears filled his eyes and ran over, and rained down before her, and he stretched out his hand toward her.
Then she said exceeding sweetly: "Now indeed I see that it is well with me, yea, and with thee also.

A sore pain it is to me, that not even now may I take thine hand, and cast mine arms about thee, and kiss the lips that love me.