disturb Sandy, didn’t turn a feather; her steam soared steadily up again, the minute I took off the lid:

“Then Sir Marhaus turned his horse and rode toward Gawaine with his spear. And when Sir Gawaine saw that, he dressed his shield, and they aventred their spears, and they came together with all the might of their horses, that either knight smote other so hard in the midst of their shields, but Sir Gawaine’s spear brake — ”

“I knew it would.”

— ”but Sir Marhaus’s spear held; and therewith Sir Gawaine and his horse rushed down to the earth — ”

“Just so — and brake his back.”

— ”and