She hopes to pray at his tomb that I may tread in his steps, and
be a blessing and not a curse to the land we love.'

Eleanor was silent, seeing for the first time that there might
be higher aims than escaping from dulness, strife, and peril;
whilst Jean cried--

''Tis the titles and jousts, the knights and ladies that I care
for--men that know what fair chivalry means, and make knightly
vows to dare all sorts of foes for a lady's sake.'

'As if any lass was worth it,' said David contemptuously.

'Ay, that's what you are! That's what it is to live in this
savage realm,' returned Jean.

At this moment, however, Brother Romuald was again seen
advancing, and this time with a request for the presence of the
ladies Jean and Eleanor.

'Could James be relenting on better advice?' they asked one
another as they went.

'More likely,' said Jean, with a sigh, amounting to a groan, 'it
is only to hear that we are made over, like a couple of kine, to
some ruffianly reivers, who will beat a princess as soon as a
scullion.'

They reached the chamber in time. Though the Bishop slept there
it also served for a council chamber; and as he carried his