Gunnar came back and found Sigrid where she was. She did not look up. He stretched out his hands towards her, then dropped them and began to whistle a tune.
That made her look up smiling. "You seem in good spirits," she said.
"I feel considerably better than I did," he told her, "but there is much to do before I am perfectly myself again."
GUNNAR TURNS FREY ABOUT AGAINST FREY'S WILL
CHAPTER XI GUNNAR TURNS FREY ABOUT AGAINST FREY'S WILL
Sigrid told Gunnar that the old priest of Frey who lived in the village, and who had been the man wishful to slay him on the altar, intended to have a sacrifice on the morrow. "Oh, does he so?" said Gunnar. "And what is he going to sacrifice?"