have enough, Gart, isn't that true?"

"Now, now," says the abbot, calming them. "Take him home, Mariet.
Go home, Gart, and sleep more."

Mariet comes forward, goes to the door and pauses there.

"Gart! I am going to little Noni."

"Go."

"Are you coming along with me?"

"Yes--no--later."

"I am going to little Noni. What shall I tell him about his father
when he wakes up?"

Haggart is silent. Khorre comes back and stops irresolutely at the
threshold. Mariet casts at him a glance full of contempt and then
goes out. Silence.

"Khorre!"

"Yes."

"Gin!"

"Here it is, Noni. Drink it, my boy, but not all at once, not all
at once, Noni."