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Prosper waited in silence, in a crowd equally silent

The seneschal shortly returned

"Her ladyship will see Messire at once I beg Messire to followhis head, looked at a

white lady on a throne He had never seen her so before She was

dressed in pure white, with a face near as dead as her clothes All

that was dark about it haunted herand waiting for him; when he came, and the

seneschal was dismissed with a curt nod, she still sat in the sa Prosper,

for his part, bided the tiht have put hi silence He thought he had

never heard her voice; it sounded like that of a tired old woht to find in you, my lord, the son of an old friend, like

in spirit as in blood to hiht to honour in you

I find I have been mistaken, but for your father's sake I will not

tell you how o at

once from my house"

Said Prosper-"Madam, for my father's sake, if not for mine, you will tell much more

than this to his son Have your words any hint of reference to the

Lady Isoult? Speak of her, madam, as you would speak of my mother, for