Moreover when he was come into the castle again,
there fell fear upon him for what might betide her, and he rued it
that he had done her will in getting her forth of the castle; and in
vain now he set before himself all the reasons for deeming that her
peril herein was little or nothing, even as he had laid them before
her, and which he then believed in utterly, whereas now himseemed
there was an answer to every one of them. So he sighed heavily and
went into the chapel, wherein was an altar of St. Leonard; and he
knelt thereat, and prayed the saint, as he had erst delivered folk
from captivity, now to deliver both him and Birdalone from peril and
bonds; but though he was long a-praying and made many words, it
lightened his heart little or nothing; so that when he rose up again,
that if anything evil happened to this pearl of women, he wished
heartily that some one might take his life and he be done with it.
Now was the house astir, and the chaplain came from out the chapel,
and thinking all things over, he thought he would go straight to Sir
Aymeris and make a clean breast of it, so that weaponed men might be
sent at once to seek Birdalone.
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