Will you two take the boat there and set me across to the mainland ?" I suppose that he had talked of this to Bertric as they came, for the Saxon nodded to me.
"It will but take half an hour," he said.

"Moreover, if we cross we may learn what is amiss.

What says the queen ?" "If the prince must go," she said, "I do not see how I can stay him.

I can sit and watch you there and back, and cannot feel lonely.

But need he go ?" "Faith," said Dalfin, laughing, "can a prince of Maghera sit still when the fires are burning yonder to call him?
That would be a shame to him, and a wonder to his folk.