“Montfort and Blois have the poor duchy by the horns and tail, while such a fellow as Croquart steals the milk.”

She looked at him with a slight frown and an impatient lifting of the head.

“Croquart, the butcher-boy from Flanders! And you nobles of Brittany, with all your chivalry, cannot match this fellow in the field.”

Tinteniac shrugged and smiled at her.

“What would you?”

“Why, were I a man—”

“Well—”

“And a Breton man—”

“Yes.”

“I should not rest till I had freed Brittany from such a brute.”