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"I am to leave Gracedieu and come with you, ma'am?"

"Yes Are you afraid?"

For answer Isoult fell flat down and kissed Maulfry's silver hem

"I will follow you to death!" she cried

Maulfry shivered, then arched her brows

"It will not be so bad as all that," she said "Come then, ill

find the horses"

Isoult looked down confusedly at her grey frock

"You little jay bird, who's to see you here a like a peacock before I've done with you,"

said Maulfry, in her ether Maulfry had hold of Isoult by the hand Presently

they calade where there were two horses held by a

ot off, helped

Isoult first, then his mistress They rode away at a quick trot down

the slope; the horses seeh spirits She played a thousand tricks, and

enveigled frohts Before

they had made their day's journey she had learnt all that she wanted

to know, or rather what she knew already It confirmed what Galors had

told her: she believed his story For her part Isoult, having once

ave her heart its way, bathed it openly in love, and

was not ashamed To talk of Prosper more freely than she had ever

dared even to herself, to talk of loving hied creature as she flew through the hours of a

forest day It pleased her, too, to think that she was being discreet

in saying nothing of her ht fit to

reveal it to his accomplished friend she must keep the secret by all