Tend my lord there, who, unless this foul sickness takes him also, may yet be saved." So they carried them both to their own large sleeping chamber on the upper floor.

There the surgeon set Sir Geoffrey's broken bone skilfully enough, though when he saw the state of the crushed limb, he shook his head and said it would be best to cut it off.

This, however, Sir Geoffrey would not suffer to be done.
"It will kill me, I am sure, or if not, then the pest which that ship, _Light of the East_, has brought here from Cyprus, will do its work on me.

But I care nothing, for since you say that my wife must die I would die with her and be at rest." At sunset Lady Carleon died.

Ere she passed away she sent for Hugh and Dick.