We quiet people fancy that all the world knows our affairs.

And it was in my mind that you had a tenderness that way yourself.

I knew not how you would take it." Then we both laughed, but it was not a hearty laughter, for each feared the other a little, as it seemed.
"I am glad for Sexberga, if she is happy," said I.
"Why, now, that is well," said Relf.

"I had thought that I must break this matter gently to you." "Maybe you would have had to do so had I bided at Penhurst much longer," said I truly enough.
"All the same, Redwald, I wish it were you, on my faith," said the thane, growing red in his earnestness.
"Thanks therefor," said I."It is good to hear you say so; but I am a landless warrior in bad luck, and so it is better as it is.

Who is the man of Sexberga's choice ?" "Eldred of Dallington," said he.