Said she, more softly still:
"I like him … as well as I like any man."
"Our Lord God lays hold upon His own," cried David, "and, Teilo, there is no need to grab souls for him. Rhaint mab Brychan, wilt thou adopt this Cynyr into thy tribe, when he shall have sojourned with thee the accustomed number of years? He will make a brave fighting-man, though not in the picked army of heaven."
"Yes, indeed!" replied Rhaint the King. "I am David's servant, to do his bidding."
"Now, upon blessed Llywel's land, where he lived and died," the saint continued, "we will set a new church, and Llywel, Teilo, and I, we three, will own it in perpetuity. And of the three thou, Teilo, shalt have the pre-eminence. Willingly wilt thou fast forty days upon this spot, for our church's hallowing. A small omission troubles thy conscience, I know. Children," turning from the Abbot of Llandaff to the man and woman before him, "I would see all well with you before I depart. Give me thy ring, Indeg."
She put her ring in the palm of David.
"It is not yet the noon-hour," said he. "Lily, where is my altar, and the other things I now require?"
"Here is your altar, my father," was Lily's reply, "and the sacred elements, look you!—ready for the swearing of oaths."
He brought David's portable altar and placed it before him, and set bread and wine upon it.
David rose to his feet, and, supported by Teilo and Ismael, said mass as it was celebrated for a marriage.