No news yet, Bedivere?

Bedivere

Our messengers return with silent faces.

It is as if the earth had swallowed him.

Arthur

Launcelot lost!... This victory, Bedivere,

Was not as the old days. Something baulked us, something

Like an invisible impediment—

I felt it round me—something that unnerved

What should have been a hammer-stroke. Almost,