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He came and sat by the side of her, blinking into the fire for some minutes without a word. "Well, friend," said Maulfry at last, "and what do you want with your servant at such an hour? For though I am not unused to have guests, it is seldom that you are of the party in these days." Galors, who never made prefaces, told her everything, except the real rank and condition of Isoult.
Its array of shields, its swords and mail kept their counsel. The figures in the singular tapestry of Troilus went through their aping unadmired, and the grey dawn found them at it. Then you might see how idle Cresseide, peering askance at Maulfry with her sly eyes, watched the black pool drown her hair. Prosper broke the silence there was between them. "Whither should we go?" he said.
The sounds of music came gratefully to Isoult; for once she was glad to be rid of him. She sped back to Vincent, enormously relieved that the field of battle was to be narrowed. Maulfry would have been awkward in the open; she knew she could hold her in the passages. There were two things to be prevented, observe. The knife must not discover Prosper, nor Maulfry Isoult.
About a week after the adventure of the bed-chamber, as she was waiting in the hall with the crowd of lacqueys and retainers, some one caught her by the arm. She turned and saw Vincent. He was hot, excited, and dusty, but very much her servant, poor lad. "Dame Maulfry is here," he whispered her. "Where?" "You will see her soon. She is tricked in the figure of a dancing woman, an Egyptian.
Thus Maulfry by hints in easy degrees led her on; and not only did she not dare to go out, but she lost all wish to peer for him in the wood, because she had been led to the conviction that he was actually in the tower a mysterious, harboured visitant who would appear late or soon, obedient to his destiny.
To follow, to get his dozen men killed, were nothing; but could he be certain Galors would be dropped and Maulfry secured for the appointed branding before the last of them fell? As for his own life, we know that he considered that arranged for. He habitually left it out of the reckoning. On the whole, however, he decided that he could not successfully attack.
In the silence which seemed to press upon her ears and throb in them, she debated with herself what she should do. She knew that there was indeed no question about it. If he was ill, everything all her humility and all his tacit authority must give way. There was but one place for a wife. Maulfry did not know she was his wife. She listened again.
"Je tiendray why, so I shall, but it savours of forecast, brags a little." "None the worse for my knight," said Maulfry. "No, no," he laughed, "but let me get something of which to brag first. Hum. Dieu m'en garde we will leave God out of the reckoning, I think. Designando I will do more than point out, by the Rood! Jesus, Amor, Ma Dame I know none of these. Entra per me Oh brave, brave!
But she might get curious on other grounds, on grounds where destiny and suchlike mannish appendages did not hold up a finger at her. And in fact she did. Meantime Maulfry took charge of her body and will. Isoult was obedient in everything but one. Maulfry, who always saw the girl undress and go to bed, objected to her prayers. "Pray!" she would call out, "for what and to what do you pray?
Soon Isoult heard the thud of hoofs on the herbage; then Alice came running in to hear the story at large. The two girls became very friendly. Their heads got close together over Prosper and Galors and Maulfry the Golden Knight who was a woman! The escape savoured a miracle, was certainly the act of some heavenly power.
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