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  '''CHAPTER XX. WALTER IS BIDDEN TO ANOTHER TRYST'''.

O came he into the pillared hall, and there he found the Lady walking to and fro by the high-seat; and when he drew nigh she turned on him, and said in a voice rather eager than angry: What hast thou done, Squire? Why art thou come before me?

He was abashed, and bowed before her and said: O gracious Lady, thou badest me service, and I have been about it.

She said: Tell me then, tell me, what hath betided?

Lady, said he, when I entered the thicket of thy swooning I found there no carcase of the lion, nor any sign of the dragging away of him.

She looked full in his face for a little, and then went to her chair, and sat down therein; 141