Go in; sit down; eat of the bread; drink of the water; and wait there until she appear.

Then ask counsel of her, for she is true, and her wisdom is great." He fell to weeping afresh, and I left him weeping.

What I said, I fear he did not heed.

But Mara would find him! The sun was down, and the moon unrisen, when I reached the abode of the monsters, but it was still as a stone till I passed over.

Then I heard a noise of many waters, and a great cry behind me, but I did not turn my head.
Ere I reached the house of death, the cold was bitter and the darkness dense; and the cold and the darkness were one, and entered into my bones together.