Maybe she had no knowledge as to which of many had been left, and I was glad of that, for so her fear was less.
"You must ride with us," I said, "and I would ask you to come quickly; even now the host is leaving Wareham." "Ay, is that so?
Then my father is busy," she said, and then she faltered a little, and looked at me questioningly.

"I cannot go without my nurse, and she is very sick.

I think she sleeps now.

Men feared her sickness so that we brought her here from the town.

But indeed there is nought to fear; there is no fever or aught that another might take from her." Then I grew fairly anxious, for this was more than I had looked for.