Wherefore
abide tidings of me for a fourteen days, and seek not to me ere then;
and meantime fear not, nor doubt me, for many messengers I have, and
ever may I do somewhat if the end of the tale is to be told in these
woodlands: and I deem these friends will not be hard to draw hither,
for it is most like that they be thinking of you and longing for you,
as ye for them. And now I will depart on my business, which is
yours, and do ye be happy to-day in the woodland, and to-morrow in
the meadows and by the water; and let no trouble weigh down your
happy days.
Therewith she flitted away from them, when she had kissed them both.
But when she was gone they fared away together deep into the wood,
and were exceeding merry disporting them, and on their return they
gat them venison for their meat, and so came back to the House of
Love when the moon was up and shining brightly.
CHAPTER XXXI. HABUNDIA COMETH WITH TIDINGS OF THOSE DEAR FRIENDS
Wore the days thenceforth merrily; and one day it was delight in the
wide meads, and another they went a long way west along the water-
side, and so into another meadow-plain, smaller than their home-
plain, which Birdalone had never erst come into; and three eyots lay
off it, green and tree-beset, whereto they swam out together.
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