And they are friends of our friends and foes of our foes.
These men are now in my House, as is but right; but when they come
forth I look to you to cherish them in the best way ye know, and make
much of them, as of those who may help us and who may by us be
holpen.'
Therewith he went in again and into the Hall, and bade show the New-
comers to the dais; and wine of the best, and meat such as was to
hand, was set before them. He bade men also get ready high feast as
great as might be against the evening; and they did his bidding
straightway.
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE ALDERMAN GIVES GIFTS TO THEM OF SHADOWY VALE
In the Hall of the Face Folk-might sat on the dais at the right hand
of the Alderman, and the Sun-beam on his left hand. But Iron-face
also had beheld the Bride how her face changed, and he knew the
cause, and was grieved and angry and ashamed thereof: also he
bethought him how this stranger was sitting in the very place where
the Bride used to sit, and of all the love, as of a very daughter,
that he had had for her; howbeit he constrained himself to talk
courteously and kindly both to Folk-might and
the Sun-beam, as behoved the Chief of the House and the Alderman of
the Dale.
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