Get to the bottom of the question, and then come and talk it over, and we will see what is to be done." He nodded and left me, and I had a good chuckle over the whole business.

It was not likely that Elfrida had set him on me, in the least; but I suppose he had heard some jest of her father's, who was one of those who will work anything that pleases them to the last.
So I went my way, and saw to one or two things, and sat me down in the room off the hall that had been Owen's, and presently Erpwald came in, and I saw that he was in trouble.
"Well," I said, "how goes the quarrel ?" "I am a fool," he replied promptly.

"The lady should be proud of the affair, and the more it is talked of the better she should like it.

You are right in saying that it cannot be stopped.

Why, there is a gleeman down the street this minute singing the deeds of Oswald and Elfrida.