“Is it my last treasure you’d be taking on me?”
“The Spae-Woman bid me tell you that you’re to give me the Girdle of Truth.”
“It’s a pity of me, it’s a pity of me,” said Mogue. But he took the box out of his pack, and let Flann take the girdle.
VIII
Flame-of-Wine saw him. She walked slowly down the orchard path so that all might notice the stateliness of her appearance.
“I am glad to see you again, Flann,” said she. “Have your comrades yet come back to my father’s town?”
Flann told her that one of them had returned.
“Bid him come see me,” said Flame-of-Wine. Then she saw the girdle in his hands.
“What is it you have?” said she.
“Something that went with the other treasures—a girdle.”