You think that a woman to whom this very morning you spoke such words as women cannot well forgive, being revengeful laid a plot to murder you, and then, being a woman, changed her mind.

Well, it is not so; Metem can prove it to you!" "Lady, I believe you," he said, "without needing the testimony of Metem.
But now the story grows still more strange, for if you had done me no wrong, how comes it that to preserve me from harm you set your tender flesh between the arrow and one who had reviled you ?" "It was by chance," she answered faintly.

"I learnt the truth and ran to warn you.

Then I saw the arrow fly towards your heart, and strove to grasp it, and it pierced me.

It was by chance, by such a chance as made me dream your danger." And she fainted..