Whereby I found that mostly these journey tokens, as one may call them, came to naught, and certainly I should not have done that if I had been able to mind them.

And yet I do not know if aught would turn a true lover from the way which leads him toward the lady of his choice.
"One thing only I do fear from this dream of yours, my mother," the king said after a little while.

"Can it mean harm to Etheldrida?
Was it for her that the knell passed, and shall I find her gone from me?
It is many days since I heard from her or of her." Now when it came to that, I knew that nothing would stay the king, and so also did his mother.

Whereon she was eager as himself to say that the dream was but wrought of her sorrow.
"Why, then," said Ethelbert, "you and Wilfrid may laugh at me if you will; for I have dreamed a dream to set against yours, because I think it has a good meaning.

I thought that I was in a city, and that from its marketplace rose heavenward a great beam of light, like a pathway.