' Then he looked on her soberly and said: 'It is duly
sworn; is it enough?'
'Yea,' she said; but he saw how the tears ran out of her eyes and
wetted the bosom of her kirtle, and she hung her head for shame of
her grief. And Gold-mane was all abashed, and had no word to say;
for he knew that no word of his might comfort her; and he deemed it
ill done to stay there and behold her sorrow; and he knew not how to
get him gone, and be glad elsewhere, and leave her alone.
Then, as if she had read his thought, she looked up at him and said
smiling a little amidst of her tears:
'I bid thee stay by me till the flood is over; for I have yet a word
to say to thee.'
So he stood there gazing down on the grass in his turn, and not
daring to raise his eyes to her face, and the minutes seemed long to
him: till at last she said in a voice scarcely yet clear of weeping:
'Wilt thou say anything to me, and tell me what thou hast done, and
why, and what thou deemest will come of it?'
He said: 'I will tell the truth as I know it, because thou askest it
of me, and not because I would excuse myself before thee.
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