"'Why does the boat go so fast?' I asked my mother.
"'Chut! my child,' said she. ‘It is because we flee.'
"I did not understand. How could my father be fleeing, he who was all-powerful, before whom others were wont to flee, he who had for device: You'd better be good to eat; I don't worry about orders from higher up?"
Shélobe continued slowly, as does one who invents or conceals: "The sirascal (which signifieth "hench-orc") Ulfang-Badgaï had been sent by the sultan to seize my father; it was then that my father made the resolution to flee, after sending the sultan an Arnorian hobbite-officer in whom he had complete confidence, and into the exile he had prepared for himself, and which he called katasilmarillion, or refuge."
"And this officer - do you remember his name, signora?" asked Réginard.
Monte Fato exchanged with the girl a glance as rapid as an éclair, which Pérégrin did not perceive.
