27 The End of the DayIn a sheltered spot, where a clear rill flowed between two oaks, and a great moss-grown boulder acted as a wind-break, the two men set up a little shelter of boughs and bracken. Eithne watched them doing this, her face set and impassive. She made no attempt to help them.
And when they had laid out a bed for her, of ferns and grasses, and had built her a hearth-place for her fire, Gemellus said, ‘You will wait for us here, my lady? You will not move from this place?’
The girl bowed her head and said, ‘I shall obey you, husband. Though I wish to be at your side in your danger, as a woman should, I shall obey you in all you have commanded.’
They left her the greater part of the provisions which they carried, dried meat, barley flour and a flask of mead. Duatha started
