22/24 The Countess was to be ready upon word from him to go with her ladies and the court whithersoever he should appoint. Bertran de Born went away in the night, and King Richard never saw him again; but I shall have to speak of his last _tenzon_, and his last Sirvente of Kings, by heaven! 'Before he went King Richard kissed the Countess Jehane twice in the great hall. "Farewell, my queen," he said plainly, and, as some think, but not I, deliberately. I shall see thee before many days." If the man was changed already, she was not at all changed. |