He spake after a while: "Why should I not come with thee?"

It was growing light now, and he could see that she reddened
and then turned pale and set her lips close.

Then she said: "Because thou willest it not: because thou hadst
liefer make that journey with some one else."

He reddened in his turn, and said: "I know of no one else who shall
go with me."

"Well," she said, "it is all one, I will not have thee go with me."
"Yea, and why not?" said he. She said: "Wilt thou swear to me that
nought hath happed to thee to change thee betwixt this and Bourton?
If thou wilt, then come with me; if thou wilt not, then refrain thee.
And this I say because I see and feel that there is some change in thee
since yesterday, so that thou wouldst scarce be dealing truly in being
my fellow in this quest: for they that take it up must be single-hearted,
and think of nought save the quest and the fellow that is with them."

She looked on him sadly, and his many thoughts tongue-tied him a while;
but at last he said: "Must thou verily go on this quest?"
"Ah," she said, "now since I have seen thee and spoken with thee again,
all need there is that I should follow it at once."

Then they both kept silence, and when she spoke again her
voice was as if she were gay against her will. She said:
"Here am I come to these want-ways, and there are three roads
besides the one I came by, and I wot that this that goeth south
will bring me to the Burg of the Four Friths; and so much I