And when we were alone there she turned to me, and her eyes were dim and pitiful.
"Friend," she said, "yon beam of light led to heaven.

I do not know what it all means, but I fear--I fear terribly." "Lady," I said, "many a time I have known men who thought they had ill dreams on the night before a battle, and naught came of them.

I have forgotten to trouble myself much therewith." "Nay, but they are sent at times for our warning." "It may be so.

I should be foolish if I did not believe what wiser men than I tell me of their messages.

But if there is ill before the king, can it be anywise turned aside?
What if he were persuaded not to go ?" "Oh," she said, with a little sob, "then his troth would be broken, and that in itself would bring ill.