I have no longer aught to do to wheedle thee to
love me. Yet if thou wilt love me, then am I a glad woman.'
He said: 'Thou wottest well that thou hast all my love, neither will
I fail thee in the battle. I am not little-hearted, though I would
have given myself to thee for no reward.'
'It is well,' said the Sun-beam; 'nought is undone by that which I
have done. Moreover, it is good that we have plighted troth to-day.
For Folk-might will presently hear thereof, and he must needs abide
the thing which is done. Hearken! he cometh.'
For as she spoke there came a glad cry from the women and children,
and those two stood up and turned toward the west and beheld the
warriors of the Wolf coming down into the Dale by the way that Gold-
mane had come.
'Come,' said the Sun-beam, 'here are your brethren in arms, let us go
greet them; they will rejoice in thee.'
So they went thither, and there stood eighty and seven men on the
grass below the scree and Folk-might their captain; and besides some
valiant women, and a few carles who were on watch on the waste, and a
half score who had been left in the Dale, these were all the warriors
of the Wolf.
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