So they joined hands and left the pleasant place, and were
again going speedily amidst the close pine woods awhile,
where it was smooth underfoot and silent of noises withal.

Now Ralph said: "Beloved, thou hast told me of many things,
but naught concerning how thou camest to be wedded to the Knight
of the Sun, and of thy dealings with him."

Said she, reddening withal: "I will tell thee no more than this,
unless thou compel me: that he would have me wed him, as it
were against my will, till I ceased striving against him, and I
went with him to Sunway, which is no great way from the Castle
of Abundance, and there befell that treason of Walter the Black,
who loved me and prayed for my love, and when I gainsaid him,
swore by all that was holy, before my lord, that it was I who sought
his love, and how I had told and taught him ways of witchcraft,
whereby we might fulfill our love, so that the Baron should keep
a wife for another man. And the Knight of the Sun, whose heart
had been filled with many tales of my wisdom, true and false,
believed his friend whom he loved, and still believeth him,
though he burneth for the love of me now; whereas in those first
days of the treason, he burned with love turned to hatred.
So of this came that shaming and casting-forth of me.
Whereof I will tell thee but this, that the brother of my lord,
even the tall champion whom thou hast seen, came upon me presently,
when I was cast forth; because he was coming to see the Knight
of the Sun at his home; and he loved me, but not after
the fashion of his brother, but was kind and mild with me.
So then I went with him to Hampton and the Dry Tree, and great
joy made the folk thereof of my coming, whereas they remembered