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It was not to be borne that the folk about the castle and countryside might come to whisper scandal of her as they did of Morgause. I repeat, what were you doing at this hour? His hand remained on her arm; she picked it off as if it were a crawling bug. But just as she was about to drop into an exhausted sleep, she remembered something that one of her women had said, long ago-it was a few days before Morgaine left the court. He must learn to rule over his people.

But you will not, perhaps, be so hard tested. Lot's son Gawaine went with me and we made short work of him, and Gawaine got himself a wife out of it-the lady is a widow with rich lands. Gwenhwyfar did not often weep now, but she felt she must weep at Lancelet's face, so marred and stricken. No, thought Gwenhwyfar, and it was not a sudden passion, either; that she could have understood and, in a s