Is it not so that she herself hath taken herself from
thee, since she hath come to know that thou hast given thyself to
another? Hath she noted nought of thee this winter and spring? Is
she well pleased with the ways of thee?'
He said: 'Thou hast spoken simply with me, and I will do no less
with thee. It was but four days agone that she did me to wit that
she knew of me how I sought my love on the Mountain; and she put me
to sore shame, and afterwards I wept for her sorrow.'
Therewith he told her all that the Bride had said to him, as he well
might, for he had forgotten no word of it.
Then said the Friend: 'She shall have the token that she craveth,
and it is I that shall give it to her.'
Therewith she took from her finger a ring wherein was set a very fair
changeful mountain-stone, and gave it to him, and said:
'Thou shalt give her this and tell her whence thou hadst it; and tell
her that I bid her remember that To-morrow is a new day.'
CHAPTER XX. THOSE TWO TOGETHER HOLD THE RING OF THE EARTH-GOD
And now they fell silent both of them, and sat hearkening the sounds
of the Dale, from the whistle of the plover down by the water-side to
the far-off voices of the children and maidens about the kine in the
lower meadows.
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