The girl listened with attentive courtesy when she spoke, flattered her subtly, was ever quick to wait upon her hand and foot. We must go down, said Gwenhwyfar, and tied on her pockets at her waist, fastening her keys to her girdle. She gave one last longing look at the shores across the Lake. Morgaine said sharply that she had never seen any sign that his priests were so tender and forgiving with sinners.
Trying to be polite, the woman murmured, I had forgotten-they still kept the old rites there, then? As they do now, said Morgaine quietly. But we shall travel all the more quickly if we are but few. She had asked him, You do not care at all for Elaine, then? She had known it was an inexcusable thing to say, but she could not live without that reassurance . So I took horse, and rode eastward through the hills; nor did I return to Caerleon for many years, nor knew I anything of what befell in Arthur's court .
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