"But you would not do that?"
"Ah," said Einar, "but I am sure that I would." She kept her gaze for the tide in the frith, feeling it would be indiscreet to say more.
A little later on he told her what the adventure was on which his heart was set, and when she had heard it she gave him her hand. But she told him that it did not rest with her—as he knew very well it did not. They sat together on the brae in the sun, and her hand remained in his keeping. Presently she said, "If my father says that we may, we will go out to find the new country together."
"We will go where you will," said Einar. "It will be all one to me."
Again she thought, with her face set towards the sea. Then she turned suddenly and put her arms round his neck.
IV
Einar spoke to Orme about the affair, and Orme put on a scared look, though he had been expecting something of the kind. "You will find Thorbeorn hard to deal with," he said.
Einar replied, "Hard or not, I intend to come at him, for I love Gudrid, and she loves me. She is worth fighting for, being as good as she is fair."
"She is so," said Orme; "but, to tell you the truth, I don't know how you will set about it."
"I shall ask you to be my friend in it," Einar said. "He will listen to you sooner than any one."