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”And why should you get one?”
“Have you ever tried to run in skirts?” Summer ripostes. “I hardly think it is any easier. But now the truth is out — it is not that you are afraid I will get hurt, only that you fear my laughter!” At home, she is a proper battle maiden, with armour and weaponry of her own. But she doesn’t tell him that. After all, she hasn’t touched those things in years.
“Can’t say I have,” he tells her honestly, “I don’t spend my time hoping to try on ladies clothing.” The knight scoffs, “a fear of your laughter? Oh darling you are sorely mistaken.”
“That’s good, since I fear I laugh at you quite a lot. Go, go!” she tells him. “You’ll be late. I will keep from the field today, for your poor honour’s sake.