'
'Yea,' said Stone-face, 'but one tale belike shall be knit up with
the others, as it fareth with the figures that come one after other
on the weaver's cloth; though one maketh not the other, yet one
cometh of the other.'
Said Face-of-god: 'Wise art thou now, foster-father, but thou shalt
be wiser yet in this matter by then a month hath worn: and to-morrow
shalt thou know enough to set thine hands a-work.'
So the talk fell between them; and the night wore, and the men of
Burgdale feasted in their ancient hall with merry hearts, little
weighed down by thought of the battle that might be and the trouble
to come; for they were valorous and kindly folk.
CHAPTER XXIV. FACE-OF-GOD GIVETH THAT TOKEN TO THE BRIDE
Now on the morrow, when Face-of-god arose and other men with him, and
the Hall was astir and there was no little throng therein, the Bride
came up to him; for she had slept in the House of the Face by the
bidding of the Alderman; and she spake to him before all men, and
bade him come forth with her into the garden, because she would speak
to him apart. He yeasaid her, though with a heavy heart; and to the
folk about that seemed meet and due, since those twain were deemed to
be troth-plight, and they smiled kindly on them as they went out of
the Hall together.
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