Lo now, I have told thee
this. When wilt thou cease to be angry with me?
She said: I ceased to be grieved with thine anger when thine anger
died; yet strange, meseemeth, that thou shouldst trust me so little
when thou lovest me so much!
And she leaned against him and caressed him gently, and again was he
at point to take her in his arms, when lo! the sound of men coming
unto the screen of the hall; so then those two stood up and went to
meet them, and there was the speech of their sundering done. Yet
belike for a little while both those twain were happy.
CHAPTER XII. THE KNIGHTS AND THEIR FELLOWS BETAKE THEM TO THE
ASSAULTING OF THE RED HOLD
On the morrow, when the day was yet young, the knights were ready for
departure, and in the very gate they bade farewell to the ladies, who
kissed them kindly one and all, and Viridis wept sore; and Atra
constrained herself to do even as the others did; but pale she was
and quaking when she kissed Arthur and watched him get a-horseback.
But the knights bade their ladies be of good cheer, for that they
would send them tidings of how they sped every seven days at least,
whereas it was no long way thence to the Red Hold, save there were
battle on the road, and they deemed their host which should beset the
Hold would be enough to clear all the ways behind it.
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