“I am not quite ready, love,” replied Ysolt. “Will not you wait for a moment?”
“It is important,” said the Professor, “that we should act quickly.”
“But I must fix up my hair,” returned Ysolt. “I will hurry as much as I can.”
“Women,” said the Professor to his companion, “are all alike. She would rather remain in prison for life than come out with her hair mussed.”
The occupants of the boat waited very impatiently for fifteen or twenty minutes. Then Ysolt, coming again to the window, said:
“Are you there, dearest?”
“Yes,” replied Sir Bleoberis, eagerly. “We are all ready.”
“And there’s no time to lose,” added Professor Baffin.
“Is your hair fixed?” asked the Knight.
“Oh, yes,” said Ysolt.