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Every feast-day morn have they found their alms-dish weightier with coin than ever she knew it before." When Edward repeated this intelligence to his queen, she recollected Dame Idonea's gossiping information that brave Sir Robert, the flower of the House of Darcy, had only entered the Order of St.
And it was probably on this account that he did not fulfil Dame Idonea's predictions, but recovered favourably, and by the end of a fortnight was able, in the first coolness of early morning, to ride gently into the city of Acre, where a few days previously the Princess Eleanor had given birth to a daughter.
Neither the wizened Greek physician, nor the dignified Templar, considered the soft but piteous assurance of the wife that the venom had at once been removed by her own lips as more than mere feminine folly, and Dame Idonea's real experience of knights thus saved, and on the other hand of the fatal consequences of rude surgery in such a climate, were disregarded as an old woman's babble.
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