The Queen hastened to distinguish the favourite by a rich bracelet, and many of the nobles who were present followed the royal example.
"Is our cousin Edith," said the King, "become insensible to the sound of the harp she once loved ?" "She thanks Blondel for his lay," replied Edith, "but doubly the kindness of the kinsman who suggested it." "Thou art angry, cousin," said the King; "angry because thou hast heard of a woman more wayward than thyself.

But you escape me not.

I will walk a space homeward with you towards the Queen's pavilion.

We must have conference together ere the night has waned into morning." The Queen and her attendants were now on foot, and the other guests withdrew from the royal tent.

A train with blazing torches, and an escort of archers, awaited Berengaria without the pavilion, and she was soon on her way homeward.