That would be more than joy to your mother.

And then for you to follow so quickly on the message! that will be wonderful.

I would that I could see that meeting." She turned and laughed in the pleasure of the thought, and I suppose there was that in my eyes which told her that I had the same wish.

Maybe I should have said so, but she flushed a little, and gave me no time.
"But I shall be on the way back to East Anglia with the princess, and I will picture it all.

Some day, when you come back to see the king, as you say he has asked you, I shall hear of it." Now it was in my mind that it was possible that I might be back in Thetford, or wherever Ethelbert's court might be at the time, sooner than I had any wish.