She arose all darling naked as she was, and went to the window and
looked out on the beauty of the spring, while the sound of the
market-wains brought to her mind the thought of the meads, and the
streams of the river, and the woodsides beyond the city; and she fell
a-longing for them, as a while she knelt on the window-seat, half
dreaming and asleep again, till the sun came round that way, and its
beams fell upon her bosom and her arms; and she stood up and looked
on the fairness of her body, and a great desire took hold of her
heart that it might be loved as it deserved by him whom she desired.
And thus she stood there till she became ashamed, and hastened to do
on her raiment; but even as she was about it, it came upon her that
what she had will to do was to seek to the Castle of the Quest, and
find out where was her love if there he were not, and so to seek him
the world over till she found him. And such a flood of joy possessed
her when she thought this, and so eager to begone she was, that she
deemed every minute wasted till she were on the road.
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