Having attacked Mary as savagely as I did, I had no confidence in procuring her pardon, yet I was made to visit her in the infirmary. Since I had the benefit of acquiring the older Knight’s company, I was certain that the injured one wouldn’t be as churlish as she had been in his absence, which was the only reason that convinced me to visit her in the first place.
As soon as we were permitted to enter her ward, I found myself inundated with a strong wave of self-reproach, which was why I did feel my body tremble as I neared the battered one, whose swollen eyes had barely opened to register the faces of her visitors when she opened her mouth to offer a rather unexpectedly bonhomous greeting to the master.
“Oh, how I wanted to see you so badly, master!”
Though Kai was certain that Mary
