I will help an old comrade home, however." "Home was burnt a year ago," he said.

"Let me bide with you, thane; I must be some man's man.

You will go back to the west presently, I suppose ?" "Yes, after a time.

What of that?
for it is not your way." "Your way is mine, unless you drive me from you.

You have given me my freedom, and I know it.