The two leaders had hitherto spoken little together, for they mistrusted each other. But as they emerged on the wide plain, which opened out as clear and bright as the surface of the sea, they seemed themselves to grow cheerful, and to lay aside all mistrust.
“Why are you going to the marriage?” asked Orestes.
“Because I cannot remain away,” answered Edeko.
“Just like myself.”
“And the Bride—the Burgundian did not dare to say ‘no’ either?”
“She? Yes, she would have dared to.”
“Then she loved this savage?”
“I did not say that.”
“Perhaps she hates him, then? A new Judith for this Holofernes?”
“Who knows? The Burgundians do not love the Huns since they pillaged Worms in their last raid.”