Said Walter: "I wot not; but the other man seemed to be looking for
me, and knew of me, and he brought me bread to eat."

She looked on him anxiously, and grew somewhat pale, as she said:
"What other one?"

Now Walter did not know what the dwarf might be to her, fellow-
servant or what not, so he would not show his loathing of him; but
answered wisely: "The little man in the yellow raiment."

But when she heard that word, she went suddenly very pale, and
leaned her head aback, and beat the air with her hands; but said
presently in a faint voice: "I pray thee talk not of that one while
I am by, nor even think of him, if thou mayest forbear."

He spake not, and she was a little while before she came to herself
again; then she opened her eyes, and looked upon Walter and smiled
kindly on him, as though to ask his pardon for having scared him.
Then she rose up in her place, and stood before him; and they were
nigh together, for the stream betwixt them was little.

But he still looked anxiously upon her and said: "Have I hurt thee?
I pray thy pardon."

She looked on him more sweetly still, and said: "O nay; thou
wouldst not hurt me, thou!"

Then she blushed very red, and he in like wise; but afterwards she
turned pale, and laid a hand on her breast, and Walter cried out
hastily: "O me! I have hurt thee again. Wherein have I done