Where else should they go ?" he said.

"They came out of them on us." "I wonder you brought your master and the lady across this heath at all," I said "it is a perilous place." "It grew late, and it is the nearest way," said the man humbly.
"Nor did I ever hear that the flintknappers, as we call them, harmed any." "Nor did I," said the old thane.

"It is somewhat fresh to me.

Maybe parties like ours have passed here so often during this last week that at last the sight of gold and jewels has roused them to try to take from a weak band." So we talked and went on as fast as we might, all the while keeping a lookout around us.

The lady had, in some way which is beyond me altogether, set herself in such array again that I, for one, could hardly tell that aught had been awry on her; and I wondered that Werbode's red cloak had never seemed so graceful a garment on his broad shoulders.