And I made upward to the cave; and was come there pretty quick;
and truly it did be good for our purpose, and fresh-seeming and
dry, and to have no holes that I could see for the hiding of
creeping things.
And I called down gently to the Maid that the cave did be
proper; and she to show her gladness, and to be looking upward at
me, instead of the way of the Gorge, as I set her; and truly she
did be a dear and human little Maid, and utter Mine; so that I did
find a new joy in each small lack of wisdom, and this just so much
as that she had done a wondrous proper thing. And truly, you shall
say, there was some properness to her heart, in that she could
abide not but to watch me.
And I went quickly down to Mine Own; for there was alway an
unease upon me, save when I did be nigh t
