"At Caer Madoc." And Cardo began to look in deadly earnest.
"And what about the witnesses?"
"I have even thought of that. Are not your two friends, Wilson and
Chester, coming to Abersethin next week?"
"So they are," said Ellis, "to stay until I leave. The very thing. They will be delighted with such a romantic little affair. But, Cardo, how about my duty to your father, who has been a very kind friend to me?"
"Well," said Cardo, "shall you be doing me an unkindness or the reverse when you make Valmai my wife? Is she not all that a woman can be? has she not every virtue and grace—"
"Oh, stop, my dear fellow! don't trouble to go through the inventory. I'll allow you at once she is perfect in mind, body, and soul—and the man to whom I marry her will owe me an eternal debt of gratitude!"
"True, indeed!" said Cardo, beginning energetically to lower the sails, and guide the boat safely to shore.
He said no more, until, after a tramp over the beach, both buried in their own thoughts, they drew near the path to Brynderyn.
"You will help me, then, at the old church on the morning of the fourteenth?"
"I will," said Ellis.