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nd it would have been better if the berserker Bjorn had cut his false heart out of him."
"Such talk is not like you, David. I can see now that your father did right to keep these bloody stories from your hearing. There is no help in them."
"Well, I know not that. This night the minister was talking to me about taking a wife. If there be truth or power in Kol's curse, why should any Borson be born, that he or she may bear his spite? No; I will not marry, and--"
"In saying that you mock your own words. Where, then, is your trust in God? And the minister is right; you ought to take a wife. People think wrong of a young man who cannot fix his heart on one good woman. There is Christina Hey. Speak to her. Christina is sweet and wise, and will make a good wife."
"I met Asta Fae as I came here. Very pretty indeed is her face, and she has a way to win any heart."
"For all that, I do not think well of Asta. She is at the dance whenever there is one, and she has more lovers than a girl should have."
"Christina has land and money. I care not for a wife who is richer than myself."
"Her money is nothing against her; it will be a help."
"I know not," he answered, but without interest. "You have given me something to think of that is better than wooing and wedding, Nanna. My heart is quite full. I am more of a man than I have ever been. I can feel this hour that there is life behind me as well as before me. But I will go now, for to-morrow is the Sabbath and we shall meet at the kirk; and I will carry Vala home for you if you say so, Nanna."
"Well, then," she answered, "to-morrow is not here, David; but it will come, by God's leave. I dreamed a dream last night, and I look for a change, cousin. But this or that, my desire is that God would choose for me."
"That also is my desire," said David, solemnly.
"As for me, I have fallen into a great strait; only God can help me."
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