"We owe you much, Sir Galahad," said Sir Vilard, "so very much that it
is beyond repayment."

"Mine and Sir Launcelot's was the joy of service, my lord. That you
must well understand."

When they reached Normandy, Charles was given a happy reception. He
had grown, and had profited well by his travels and service to Sir
Galahad whom he would not leave now. For he hoped to be made a knight
by him. In Normandy, Sir Galahad stayed for more than a month. He had
acquired great fame because of his travels and deeds yet did he find
small pleasure in this for the great purpose of his journeys had
failed.

It was on a day just before he was to return to England. He had
mounted the Seeker and without companion had gone forth for the
morning. His thoughts were of the Grail, of his great wish to find it,
and ever with his thoughts the wish to prove to Yosalinde that it was
in him to find it. Well he knew that she would understand his desire
even though he could not bring to her the fulfillment of that desire.

"Yet who am I to find myself disheartened. I must not question, keep
ever seeking." So he thought to himself and gave no heed to where the
Seeker carried him.

Nor did it seem strange to the knight that he found himself in a
narrow path of the woods and before him the strange monk who had first
given him urge to seek the Holy Grail.

"I greet you, holy father. Nor can I say to you that I have yet proven